Category: FunFoodLife

Anyone interested in a daytime NeedleNerds meeting?

Please post a comment to this blog post if you are interested in meeting sometime during the week day. I won’t be able to make a daytime meeting since I work fulltime, but I can get something coordinated.

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This food is keeping Bert alive

Bert still struggles to eat canned & hard food on his own. I’ve had to syringe feed him for a month to keep him from literally starving to death.  I fed him with this Hills Prescription diet A/D food. It is a high calorie pate type food that, when mixed with a little bit of liquid, works really well in a syringe.

He eventually figured out how to drink water on his own, but it’s taken him longer to start eating on his own.  Some days, he’ll lick up really soft canned, pate textured cat food, but some days he struggles even doing that.

When I took Bert to the vet last Saturday to get his stitches removed, I bought a case of the Hills Prescription Diet food (it is not sold at the store without a prescription) just so I’d have some on hand just in case I have to resort to syringe feeding him again. Today was a syringe feeding kind of day. . . it’s been a discouraging day.

Click here to read the latest update on Bert –>

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Current Reading List

Here’s the reading list of the Pulitzer Prize winning books I plan to read over the next several months:

  1. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2007)
  2. The Late George Apley, by John Phillips Marquand (1938)
  3. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (2018)
  4. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016)
  5. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1921)
  6. The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939)
  7. Honey in the Horn, by Harold L. Davis (1936)
  8. The Reivers, by William Faulkner (1963)
  9. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (1932)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Tonight I finished reading this amazing book. The story depicted slavery in a much more brutal way than any other story I can recall reading. As I worked my way through the book, the terms, “white privilege” (a term I have struggled to understand) and “black lives matter” have played over and over again in my mind. I also think of “black holocaust”, a term I had only recently heard, yet as I read of Cora’s experiences and observations in North Carolina, shares so many similarities to the Jewish holocaust.

I need to take a day or two to think about this book and let its story gel in my mind before I can write much more about it. I am appalled and moved beyond description for the things that occurred in this story. I think this is an important book that will stand the test of time and, and hard as it was to read, I am glad to have read it.

BOOK DISCUSSION LINKS – Please click the three links below to view my thoughts regarding the questions presented:

01 – What were your initial impressions of the book?

02 – What did you think of the characters that Cora encountered?

03 – What did you think of Cora and her situation?

Here’s some additional links about this book that you might find of interest: