Gas is too expensive to drive 45 minutes to Stowe for a restaurant when there are plenty close to JSC. We felt like real food. He didn’t feel like dressing up, and I didn’t feel like sitting in a car for an hour. It was also later in the evening, and neither of us felt like eating fast food or pizza. We wanted Mom’s cooking. Mom was too far away, but Peggy’s was open in Jeffersonville.
With just a short drive down Route 15, we pulled into Peggy’s Cookin’. When we walked into the dining room, we were greeted with a smile and told to sit where we liked. With about 10 tables and only one other party, we found a small table and sat down. We were brought glasses of water and menus and left to ponder.
Editor’s Note: Mr. Paquet has taken this week off. According to the note left near the open window of his room on a dark and stormy night, he has been called away on short notice to visit a distant relative, Baron Mikhail von Pokkeht, who lives in eastern Romania.
Subbing for Paquet is Adjunct Professor of Creative Language Robert Dawkins, who will be teaching several elective language courses this upcoming fall. Mr. Dawkins has been teaching English for the last thirty years, although it was only after being struck by lightning in 2004 that he took up what he calls “the psychedelic egg” of Creative Language, the value of which, he explains, lies in “the fact that the Establishment is freakin’ out over it, man.”
Today we be talking linguistics, yo, and I’m down with it. I’m buying what you’re selling, I’m grooving to the feeling, I can woot with the best of them and it’s out of sight, my man.
Lemme break it down for ya.
By Caitlin Bronner
Lewis Mehl-Madrona stood on the stage of Dibden Center on April 17 looking relaxed in a crisp white dress shirt. He had a captivating humbleness about him and his soft voice reverberated peacefully through the space. Mehl-Madrona had come to speak about his concepts of illness and healing. He had also come to discuss how he has infused his traditional allopathic medical training with the lessons of his Native American elders.
Mehl-Madrona was unpretentious and began by dispensing anecdotes about his past. He began, “When I was three years old – well I don’t remember, but this is what my mother tells me anyway – that when I was three years old I told her I was going to Stanford Medical School.” He paused, absorbing the laughter that followed all of his quips. “I am so honored to be here tonight,” he said. “I invite each and every one of you to dialogue with me. Please, I don’t just want to be up here talking the whole time.”
Swimsuit time is almost here. Instead of crash dieting on cottage cheese and celery for the majority of the summer, try finding a suit that accentuates your fabulous body whatever shape it’s in.
In the beauty and fashion world, women’s bodies are categorized as fruits. “Apples” have a fuller, rounder tummy. “Pears” have full hips and smaller breasts. “Strawberries” are the opposite of “pears.” Strawberries are bigger on top with smaller hips. “Bananas” are long and lean.
There are ways to emphasize what you love about your body and de-emphasize what you don’t love. If you’re an “Apple,” try a one-piece with a high empire waist that will draw attention upwards and lengthen the lower half of your body, making it look shapelier. Darker colors also work to slim and cover flaws.