Author: A. E. Macdonald
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2014 was a very good year!
Looking back on 2014 I realize that it has been a year of many changes for me. As with all changes, some were good, some were expected and some came as a complete surprise. In February of 2014 I left Suffolk University after 15 years. While this change was not totally of my own choosing,…
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Anatomical Gift?
I was a little surprised, a little queasy and a lot impressed when my uncle donated his body to science. I had never known anyone to donate their body to science before and I wasn’t sure what donating your body to science means. Is there a funeral? What happens to the remains once they have…
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Teapot and memories
It’s Easter and I run upstairs to get some serving dishes. In a cabinet that holds many things like serving dishes, art supplies, home-made jams and empty jars, sewing supplies, I see the old white teapot that had been displayed by my grandmother and then my parents on a shelf in their dining rooms. The…
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Writing Life: Progress on my 2nd novel
Now that my first novel, Deadlines Are Murder, has been out on amazon.com and smashwords.com for a year and has sold about 650 copies, it’s time to get cranking on my second novel, Weddings Are Murder. While my intentions have been good, my progress has been slow. I can attribute some of this slowness to…
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Nemo, a Storm of Historic Proportions?!
New England and particularly the Boston area is experiencing a blizzard, or a nor’easter with snow, or a winter storm. They, which is The Weather Channel, have named it Nemo and according to this article, http://news.discovery.com/earth/weather-extreme-events/naming-nemo-gets-traction-130208.htm, the naming of this storm and winter storms is catching on. And a lot of it has to do with…
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Turnips and yogurt? Why?
There’s a recipe in our CSA newsletter for turnips and yogurt. Why in the world, I wonder, would anyone want to have turnips and yogurt. I won’t eat them individually, let along together. I learned that I do not like turnips through my CSA. Our first year as members brought a lot of new vegetables…
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Haunted Houses, do you believe?
Do you believe in ghosts? or haunted houses? I do. The funny thing is that I’m not really superstitious and not likely to believe most ghost stories but since I lived in one once, I do believe. I’d like to say that the house was a part of my youthful imagination, but I’m not the…
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Observations on our Trip to Italty
We’re back from a 17 day trip to Italy. It was the best vacation of my life, so far. We saw Como, Milan, Florence, Rome and the village in Abruzzi where my husbands great-grandparents came from then back to Rome. We took the slow boat around Lake Como and found it to be so relaxing.…
A. E. Macdonald's Writing Life 