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		<title>The End of the Road: Moving on to &#8220;Joy of Reading&#8221;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[After almost 18 years, it&#8217;s time for a major change. I will no longer be writing on WordPress. Instead, I will be wordsmithing on Substack, at “Joy of Reading.” Please join me there.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cooks, the Forgotten Characters in Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 11:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I spent an hour in the local Barnes &#38; Noble. There&#8217;s only one other bookstore in town, indie, focused on banned books and so on. Nothing wrong with that, but their inventory isn&#8217;t as large as B&#38;N, and I was looking for mass market paperback crime novels. Yeah, I do read [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer Somehow, I managed to get through many years of schooling without ever cracking open a copy of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Fleeting references to it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;A Hastiness of Cooks&#8221;: A Practical Handbook for Deciphering the Mysteries of Historic Recipes and Cookbooks*</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia D. Bertelsen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Food is Life. I once stood on a busy street corner in Puebla, Mexico. A market day, a late October morning, battleship-gray skies overhead. I watched women – young, old, rich, poor―lugging string bags or baskets laden with food, hurrying home to cook almuerzo, lunch. I couldn’t get the thought out of my head: Food [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia D. Bertelsen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A fully grown up tree cannot be bent into a walking stick. ~ African proverb Stuck off the beaten track but surrounded by the heavy traffic of a congested city, the Grand Market in Virginia Beach, Virginia is not an easy place to pinpoint, even with GPS tracking technology. But &#8220;Sam&#8217;s&#8221; voice droned, &#8220;Turn right, then [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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