My UCLA Commencement Speech

  Good afternoon Dean Schaberg, Professor Porodi, faculty, staff, graduates and all the families here today. Dean Schaberg. Thank you for thinking I would be a good person to inspire people with more energy and spirit than I’ve had for a couple of decades. I guess we’ll

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Daughter's Granola with yogurt and Muddy Pond Sorghum

Product: Daughter’s Granola

Ever since I posted my take on Kim Boyce's Chocolate Chip Cookies people have been asking me about Daughter's Granola which I threw into the recipe in lieu of enough flour. The daughter in question is Emilie Coulson.  Her parents have a restaurant in Fish Creek

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Thoughts on Mom's 95th Birthday

Today Mom is 95

And it's shocking.  As much to her as to those who gather around her.   No one in her family has come close to such an extended life. And as a smoker and eater everyone around her assumed she would be one of the first to

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