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A Berkeley Episode: The Landlord
I moved to Berkeley in 1997. For the first year, I lived in a sort of communal house in El Cerrito by the BART station. It was a 5 bedroom house painted a butter-white stucco with a one-car garage that the owner had finished out into a 6th bedroom. I lived in that 6th bedroom.…
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SFC Go to The Freitag Factory
The boys’ school has a really strong and active parent community. The Welcome Committee is constantly organizing trips for wine tasting, hiking, and area tours. This time Mark and I went on a tour of the Freitag bag factory in Zurich. I’ve seen these Freitag bags on the trams in Basel. Often I see about…
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Candy Cane Cookies
It’s mid-December and we are in the thick of holiday preparations. This weekend was cookie making day! I got sugar cookies made on Thursday and Saturday and Sunday were filled with chocolate crinkles and candy cane cookies. Candy cane cookies are my favorite. The recipe comes from my Mom’s 50 year old edition of Betty…
Mindy Carlson 