Western Psychological Association Fun #wpa13. @PsychScience

( posted for Laura Freberg)

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I was asked to give a lecture and mine was entitled “Think like a Scientist.”

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Here I am with friends and new friends from College of the Canyons.

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One of my students Nate Honeycutt presented on a Political Psychology study involving over 700 faculty that created a lot of buzz!

Conferences are great experiences for budding academicians and master professors alike!

The Thayer Hotel

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Highland Falls near West Point with tulips in bloom!

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Staying at the Thayer Hotel at West Point is a comfortable and wonderful experience overlooking the Hudson River. One can easily understand its strategic position in the Revolutionary war.

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If you are doing business in the New York area of on vacation you couldn’t do much better that spending some time here!

At the Thayer… Everyone feels special!

Birthdays

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Yesterday was my 61st. Birthday…. Somebody said that 60 was the new 40… Well, not really.

It’s always interesting to see the famous and the infamous that we share birthdays.

This year I was gifted with a new computer whose primary virtue is art programs… Which I use extensively.

May your birthday be as pleasant!

Another birthday

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My daughter Karla drew this very sweet drawing for my birthday tomorrow representing how she views various members of the immediate family.

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Karla knows of my love of Chocolate… Nestlé and — of course– Peter’s chocolate!

Viva la Difference in bread pudding

This is a sweeter and a more dense bread pudding! (Laura's Favorite!
This is a sweeter and a more dense bread pudding! (Laura’s Favorite!

The making of bread pudding is nearly as old as history.

Bread pudding was a wonderful solution to what to do with a kitchen full of excess breads and cakes! If you take out your copy of the turn of the century “The Epicurean” by Chef Charles Ranhofer and check out recipes for bread pudding, he will suggest grabbing the scraps of cake and such… and that’s all the help he offers!

Here is a 'fluffy' version of the same type of bread pudding ... but delicious in its own way.
Here is a ‘fluffy’ version of the same type of bread pudding … but delicious in its own way.

Our basic bread pudding recipe.