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...Bolton, Ga., Methodist church and "dreamed of marrying the blond boy" a few pews away, "in a baby-blue wedding with six bridesmaids, of becoming the perfect housekeeper and sex partner, and of having six children [and] writing perfect novels while perfect cakes baked in the oven in my Betty Crocker kitchen." She never made it. Instead, Daniell got hitched at 16 to a classically brutal good ole boy, divorced him and married upward to a dull architect, raised three children, had an affair with a "Famous Southern Poet," married again, a Northerner a decade her junior, left...
Waiting for opening day is like waiting for your mother's chocolate chip cookies to come out of the oven. You try to do something else, but you keep heading back to the kitchen, thinking about those cookies. Baseball does the same thing to people. I even know someone who went to Fenway and sat on the curb outside for three hours in February. In February...
They really shouldn't have lost, although the final tally was not surprising, or oven unexpected. What hurt was how the team lost, namely, with a tough defeat in the final 800-yd. freestyle relay...
...thrown a day's accumulation of junk mail and the sports section of the Boston Globe, fine sources of energy, into his antique Glenwood woodburning cookstove, along with some dry birch kindling and some twelve-inch splits of coarse grained red oak. He has watched the ancient oven thermometer, as reliable as the day it was made 80 years ago, climb to 425° F. That's a little high. Fiddle with the damper. Now pop in three bread pans full of cracked-wheat dough...
...even Barbie can't keep up that whirlwind pace indefinitely. This season she has a place of her own, the "dream house" ($115) where she can ponder the more serious questions she faces as an adult. Barbie can cook dinner in her microwave oven, relax in her beauty bath, or read on her single...