Eulalia Benejam Cobb’s blog

Moving On

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:49:09 -0500

Dear friends and readers, My blog and I are moving. You can find us at mygreenvermont.com See you there...and thanks for visiting! Eulalia (Lali)

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Dressing Up

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:04:18 -0500

I miss dressing up every day. Although I used to work in academia, where down-at-the-heel looks were considered a sign of intellectual rigor, I could never embrace that aspect of the profession. Instead, I used to pay lots of attention to what I...

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Now It Begins...

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:37:11 -0500

We are encased in ice. All that is mineral or vegetable is covered on every surface with a gorgeous, glittering, deadly coat of ice. The kind of ice that causes cars to crash and people and horses to slip and break bones. The kind of ice that se...

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Snow Emergency

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:17:46 -0500

The weatherman today announced the first real snow storm of the season. Five inches, plus ice and anticipated power outages. The indoors time is upon us. I took the dogs out into the field for their exercise while the flakes were still spar...

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Rhubarb Bread

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:26:10 -0500

Every morning for breakfast I eat a slice of rhubarb or zucchini bread. I've been making the stuff for years, six loaves at a time, from a recipe I cut out of the back of a flour bag. The recipe has variations for zucchini, apple, pumpkin and ca...

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On Gloom

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:59:11 -0500

The word “gloom” is onomatopoeic, like “crash” or “bump.” Just listen to that nauseous initial “gl,” followed by the prolonged mournful “oo.” And no sooner are you over that than “m” closes down like a trap, sealing you in a dingy space from w...

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Subverting Simplicity

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:28:40 -0500

The question came up in conversation the other day about what I would do if I had lots of money. And for a while, I couldn't come up with anything. Does that mean that I have attained perfect happiness? Maybe. But what it really means is that I ...

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Hens In Winter

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:44:41 -0500

I think I might be running an industrial egg farm. It hasn't been going on for long, but who knows when it will end? Here are the circumstances that led to my conversion from cuddly and compassionate, quasi-organic chicken keeper to steely-ey...

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Buddy Holly, My English Teacher

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:26:17 -0500

The first thing my father bought upon arriving in Birmingham, Alabama, was a radio. A classical musician, he was a passionate jazz aficionado, and assumed that, since Birmingham was in the heart of Dixie, there would be non-stop fabulous jazz pr...

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Sister Dorothy Does A Make-Over

nobody@vox.com(Eulalia Benejam Cobb) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:59:35 -0500

Newly arrived in the US, I spent my high school freshman year drowning in a soup of cultural and linguistic confusion. I was the only foreign student in the school, and was left pretty much to fend for myself. Able to speak only a little Engli...

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