Pear Pistachio Tart, also known as Frangipane Tart.
Pastry Chef Emma Sanchez Cardenas
Pastry Chef Emma Sanchez Cardenas
An Oxford Professor, Dr. Alex Connock, invited an AI (artificial intelligence software) to participate in a debate at the Oxford Union on the ethics of AI. These are some of the machines responses: “AI will never be ethical“, argued Megatron-Turing Language Generation model. “It is a tool, and like any Read more…
My Conversations with AI (Artificial Intelligence) Curiosity is one of my most prevalent personality traits. I like to read and have enjoyed all things scientific and mathematical since I was a child. This does not make me a scientist or a mathematician but it does make me unafraid to approach Read more…
STRATEGY FOR 2022: UPDATE 6 Sept 2022 The original list was made from the aforementioned sites prior to primary elections based on historical info. That is changing rapidly now although thankfully we are only down 1 seat from predicted: MI 10 was supposed to lean Dem but seems to have Read more…
STRATEGY FOR 2022: RED ALERT from Nanette Smith Thank you Mercedes Jenouri for the opportunity to share this critical information! BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS: 2016. Annus Horribilis (stolen from Queen Elizabeth). So many of my friends were pumped up about Hillary, but I had special information and was extremely worried and Read more…
A midwestern state, Kansas, surprised our red Dorothy Red slippers off by repealing the ban on abortion dictated by the corrupt Supreme Court. They boast a Democratic Party Governor, Laura Kelly, two Republican Senators, four Republican Congress-people and on Democrat Congress-person Sharice David’s. Let’s go blue Kansas. This message is Read more…
There Is No Mercy Here It’s been a lifelong habit of mine to make up stories in my mind. This could be the consequence of being an only child. More often than less my mental stories are silly stories. The world is often harsh and people are often nasty but Read more…
“Love Your Enemy?” Forget That or Die. As a lifelong people watcher and pattern recorder I can’t help seeing and concluding that there is just too much forgiveness and feely touchy sentiment between my partner Democrats and our common enemies, Republicans. I’ll comment based on my observations. Democrats are easy Read more…
Have you ever considered what it would feel like to be a rose? If you were a rose on this glorious, second day of Spring? Being a seductress, aware of your beauty while you unfold and extend your many arms and textures into the world that eagerly awaits you? Imagine Read more…
The common saying that “You are what you eat”, is truer, when applied as ” You are what your read”. My personal writing muse is prompted by specific imagery, mostly by art. Images remind me of specific events that are meaningful to me and the writing comes afterwards. The picture Read more…
Zen teaches us how to free our mind and allow our thoughts to flow unhinged by social mores. It’s like going a little crazy. This free, crazy mind joyfully wanders and seeks and finds mysteries, while poking them and trying to know more about anything, about everything. Is the mind Read more…
People stories are interesting. Real life, unvarnished and easy to grasp. How did this couple get from there to here? What is the core that rules their lives? I recently asked a friend, in passing, how she had met her husband. This is the story of how they met and Read more…
Several years ago an article in Smithsonian Magazine proved that, which I have known my entire life. There is distinct and clear between communication between dogs and humans. After all, pre-our-history we all hunted together, dogs helping in the hunt and getting its fair share of its food. I’ve also Read more…
There is a wonderful surge of people talking about, and engaging in, the concept of “critical thinking”. It’s the objective analysis and evolution of an issue in order to form a judgment. Another page to the same story is “Hegel’s dialectics” which refers to the particular dialectical method of argument Read more…
A lifetime of traveling within the eye of a powerful hurricane really inhibits clear vision. Seeing what surrounds you is close to impossible. Regardless of these shortcomings it is an exhilarating ride, worthy of your time. The Girl spent most, if not all, of her life riding on the wind, Read more…
Someday soon my body will release me and lay down to its eternal rest. Only then shall we meet again and mingle like before and forever more. Till then…