Thursday, March 12, 2026
This is a different Love in the Kitchen--anyway, it's time to go to sleep--had a long day.
However, day very warm--75F. Things went relatively well. One fave restaurant closed permanently, but Trader Joes opened--easy to walk to,lots of Chinese dim sum,small portions.
Going to change my eating patterns.
Normally eat high fiber, multi-grain, but to prep for procedure have to eat low fiber foods.
Also buying in bulk from cheapie store,found could not eat so much, so some waste.
Therefore will eat like Scallion Shoot who eats small portions--like appetizers or tea time snacks. This good friend taught me a lot.
AS we grow old we need small portions of better food.
So today had 5 halves of deviled eggs and a beet salad.
With bread and the nice waiter filled up my cold coffee.
Waiters and waitresses always very kind to me.
Chinese place even makes steamed eggplant for me without the sauce, and by now they know I only eat brown rice.
Next time going to Trader Joes with shopping cart. Bottle of lemonade was very heavy.
Wow, boasting a little. Benjamina's,The Plum,Whole Foods, Starbucks, Trader Joes all within walking distance, 3 kinds of doctors--nice gardens and benches along the way. The cherry is starting to bloom--warm like summer.
https://www.iq.com/play/love-in-the-kitchen-2020-24nfjclpuxg?lang=en_us
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
From Slate:
There are many appalling things about the ongoing war in Iran, but one of the worst so far is President Donald Trump’s persistent avoidance of responsibility for the missile attack that hit a girls’ school, killing at least 175 Iranians, most of them grade-school children.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/iran-trump-war-school-bombing-missile-strike-tomahawk.html
Video footage clearly shows the damage was done by a Tomahawk cruise missile. In his press conference Wednesday, Trump said that the Tomahawks are “generic” weapons (untrue, they are quite distinctive) and that many countries have some, including Iran (very untrue), suggesting—even stating explicitly—that Iranians themselves might have fired the missile.
There are precedents for how to handle these sorts of incidents. During the war in Afghanistan, when U.S. troops accidentally killed a civilian (a frequent occurrence), they went to the dead person’s family, apologized, and gave them some money. In 1999, during the war in Serbia, when U.S. planes mistakenly bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three employees and injuring 20, President Bill Clinton phoned Chinese President Jiang Zemin to apologize, stressing that it was an isolated error, not a deliberate attack on China.
In other words, it is possible—under previous presidents, it has been policy—to admit to making horrific mistakes in wartime, and even to compensate for the damages. A soldier, even a president, can do so without appearing weak or suggesting doubts about the wider war. In fact,
Day 11, Malcolm Nance and Jacob Kaarsbo from Substack
Malcolm Nance and Jabob Kaarsbo--full of facts, really up to the minute, balanced, serious analysis.
Sorry, can't post the link--you have to get on Substack and look for it yourself.
Brief? fall in oil prices due to Trump remarks--
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/10/oil-prices-drop-trump-iran-war?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
1000 oil tankers still stuck outside Strait of Hormuz--
Temp storage facilities limited.
Monday, March 09, 2026
This is a good one, but almost like JoJo Moyes' bestselling, Me before You, except here the man is less disabled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7sCDVWG44
However, Maintenance will come in to install mandatory fire alarms, mandated by the state--not the nation state, the state state.
And I hate it but I always have to move my boxes of books and my "trays" of works in progress.
Watch the movie online (Me before You)--the lovers are super cute, but the ending is sad.
Moyes's 3 novels are a trilogy.
Maybe I should watch the movie again, but I can't bear it when someone dies.
It was just too much for "Will Traynor."
I guess movie-makers can make these look alike movies if they change things around a lot.
Another (depressing) memoir I am reading is Karl Ove Knausgard's My Struggles, which was published in 2000.
I bought it around then, and now 26? years later, I am reading the 2nd half.
His father, an alcoholic, dies, and he goes to his grandmother's to find the house full of junk--excrement, urine, empty liquor bottles.
The detail is incredible.
It makes me think I can write the painful parts after my father died.
"Granular detai" as Rachel Maddow always says.
After all, I remember it all.
Must try not to die like that. In Knausgard "Kah-nausgard"
the grandmother's dementia is very well depicted--she says the same sentence like "IGN brought her baby into the classroom," every 5 minutes.
I don't have dementia but if I don't take B12 and D3 regularly, I have to struggle more to remember--
Kyi May Kaung
3-9-2026.
Iceland crochet scarf--my own design. Kaung.
Sunday, March 08, 2026
Colonial wars of aggression and expansion--based on Peter Shaffer's famous play--Royal Hunt for the Sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qguC_ZlESEc
Now that Hegseth is giving another reason for the US-Israel attack on Iran, this time a religious war.
Saturday, March 07, 2026
Peter, Paul and Mary--Blowing in the Wind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RlnYC7skbI&list=RDbRe648clNjg&index=3
As saw them live in Colonial Williamsburg when we Fulbright Scholars were invited.
They included my late friend "Yasmine" --a Japanese man, a Sri Lankan Monk and Nelson Mandela's daughter.
We were treated to a great lunch in a tent, which included a lobster salad, a fireworks show and a fife and drum band.
Friday, March 06, 2026
Correction--the entire family was in a Japanese concentration camp. Empire of the Sun is fiction
but obviously informed by what he experienced in the camp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard
It might be disturbing for some--war scenes--fall of Shanghai to the Japanese--as a boy
J D Ballard was separated from his parents--this is his true story.
Republican Rep Gonzales drops out of TX race after admitting affair with aide--this seems o be a thing these days.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-gonzales-drops-out-of-house-runoff-race-after-admitting-affair-with-aide/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
From Axios -Senate GOP cheers Noem's firing.Looks like MAGA split is accelerating. War in Mid East can only widen.
Mullin is "pretty well vetted around here, so hopefully we can get the process going because I think that's a position that's going to need to be filled quickly," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said.
utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-u
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/senate-gop-cheers-trumps-decision-to-dump-noem?s
State of play: Democrats, while declaring good riddance to Noem, insisted that a change at the top would not unlock funding for DHS, which has been shut down since Feb. 14.
"No one person can straighten this up until the president changes the whole agency," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). "This is not an issue of personnel. This is an issue of policy."
"I'm not going to vote for $1 more for that agency as long as they are body-slamming American citizens, barging into American homes without warrants or murdering Americans," Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said.
Still, Booker acknowledged that Mullin's confirmation is likely a foregone conclusion.
"If it's a 50-vote threshold, I would imagine he will be confirmed," Booker told Axios. Cabinet nominations require only a simple majority.
The intrigue: There's a serious beef between Mullen and Sen. Ran Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, which will handle Mullin's nomination.
"Rand Paul's a freaking snake," Mullin told a group at home in Tulsa last month. "And I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did," he said, apparently referring to a 2017 assault on Paul that left him with five fractured ribs.
"And I told him that to his face," Mullin said.
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