The last time we made pumpkin cookies, everyone complained that they were too sweet!
So this time we left out half the sugar. And none of the kids liked them because they were not sweet enough. And they did not taste much like cookies, more like biscuits.
"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought."
From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".
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