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I’d just returned from a weekend trip to the coastal countryside, where I chatted with an elderly fisherman named Claire at the market. She shared

I invited my dear neighbors, an old married couple named Carla and Miguel, over for dinner one summer evening. Carla suggested we fire up the

Last fall I ran into Maria, the retired school cook, at the neighborhood farmers’ market. She was selecting crisp bell peppers and chatting about hearty

At age sixty-two, I still recall that crisp evening when my friend Barbara and her husband invited my own partner and me to their porch

When my neighbor Anita and her husband invited us over for a backyard barbecue one summer evening, I showed up with a small pot of

I once brought this cheesy beef rigatoni bake to a potluck at my retired teachers’ club last autumn. Janet, who taught art alongside me for