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Warm egg yolk dripped onto crispy corned beef hash: Saturday breakfast delight. When I moved to SF in 1978, I lived collectively with...

This is a photo of my great-great-grandmother Eliza Ophelia Hill, born 1858 in a cane-growing region of Florida. She witnessed the Civil Wa...

Thanks to Tammi's valiant efforts to keep the fridge and pantry organized, I now have a chart I can refer to when asking someone to loca...

Over the last two days I had to track down all of the supporting documentation Texas demands in order for me to receive assistance for poor...

(Bill and I in the front room of our house, 1965; I am in pajamas and robe, sick with asthma as usual, but have put on a dress-up sombrero; ...

(Me and Bill, Summer 1964, Houma, LA) I watched Avec Eric which focused on how he and his restaurant funnel food to the soup kitchens of N...

(Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy...) Thanksgiving was not a strong family holiday when I was growing up. There's a numb...

Again only seven hours of real sleep and now once again a slight stomach ache after breaking my fast, so I'm waiting it out before taki...

I am great in emergencies. I not only can think of the right thing to do, I can instantly come up with a creative solution particular to th...

Jill Cozzi's post at Brilliant at Breakfast acted as a final spark for me today. In "So Long [Gulf of Mexico], And Thanks For All...

A bit of a hard night going to sleep, physically, but slept long and solid. I dreamed I was in the second or third story of a huge, beaut...

(Bill David Barnett, age 2.5, and Maggie, age 5, trailer park in Pecos, Texas, summer 1961) Today my little brother Bill would have tur...

(Maggie Jochild at Bean Hollow Beach near Pescadero, California, i980) HUNGRY When Liza found out I had lost 85 pounds over the last t...

(Mary Jo Atkins Barnett and Maggie, 1955, passport photo for going to India) When I woke up from the RT shakiing my shoulder at 7 a.m., ...

(Card created by Liza Cowan in 1983 for her company, White Mare) My second semester at North Texas State University, I signed up for a spe...

(Maggie's mother, older brother, and father, circa 1949, Bowie, Texas bus station) I've been missing my father, wishing I could tal...