Breaking Bread with Friends 7


My husband and I had two couples over for dinner tonight.  It is pouring rain outside yet they braved the congestion of a Friday night to come over.  Food was de-lish – if I do say so myself – and I do. I’m not saying this just because I was the chef.  To borrow a phrase from another chef “Can can cook.” It was one of our “six at six” gatherings.  Great conversation, freshly cooked food, great cake and freshly whipped cream. MMmm-good.

I am in a nesting mood and so have embarked to invite small groups of people and sometimes individuals for lunch, breakfast or dinner a couple…two…three times a month. (I know a couple is two – this is just a saying from my girlish days.)

All that cooking meant I didn’t write anything down today, but I do have some ideas bopping around in my brain and I plan to hit the computer early tomorrow morning.  After that I’ll go to the library to pick up a book I ordered that is out of print but that they had at one of the other branches.  I’m rediscovering the library and enjoying it.  The  BPL’s Adams branch near my home is abuzz with people of all ages.

Gonna go snuggle now.  Bye-bye.


About Candelaria Silva

Candelaria Silva-Collins is a marketing, community outreach and programming consultant; writer; and trainer/facilitator who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has designed and facilitated workshops on a wide variety of topics including communication, facilitation, job search skills, team building, and parenting issues. She currently coordinates the Community Membership Program of the Huntington Theatre Company. Her work as Director of ACT Roxbury was profiled in several publications, including The Creative Communities Builders Handbook. Candelaria’s children’s stories, short stories, essays and reviews have been published in local and national publications and she is an active blogger. Her publications include the booklets, Handling Rejection; Pushing through Shyness: Networking Tips when You’re Shy, Slow to Warm Up or Just don’t Feel you Belong; and Real Questions about Sex & Relationships for Teens: A Discussion Guide for Parents. She has served on the boards of Goddard College, Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston Foundation for Architecture, and Discover Roxbury. She is currently Chair, Designators of the Henderson Foundation.

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