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Mercury retrograde Valentine’s weekend

Mark gallantly took his girls, me and Toni, out for dinner on Thursday (the night before Valentine’s Day). We went to the new(ish) Heritage Tavern, that’s gone in where Underground Kitchen used to be, before they burned the building down, in the classy apartment building where Mark used to live. It was efficiency apartments, with […]

Alternative valentine’s

Instead of a romantic dinner for 2, we had a family dinner – another couple, old friends, also empty nesters with grown children, and our Japanese exchange student. We ate Costco salmon with the maple syrup, soy sauce, and butter glaze that I first made by scrounging through the cabinets at our airbnb lodgings for […]