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December
A rare demand for a usual skill
I’m in my beloved Natchez with some friends from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and beyond. And our first supper last night was at Magnolia Hall,…
An apron with my name
I want an apron with my name on it. I stopped working full time in January. I can’t quite bring myself to call it “retired.”…
Falling out of love with my grill
I never thought I would see this day and I’m even hesitant to write about it, but I’ve had a revelation regarding my gas grill…
The Wedge
Forget grain bowls, coconut-oil based dressings and…please…no more kale. Lately, I’ve been pining away for a good old Wedge. No one knows who invented that…
Make yourself a regular
King Daddy and I adopted a travel plan when we first went overseas. Go to one locale and make yourself a regular. When we went…
Goulash
I seem to be surrounded by goulash these days. Now that Dammit Boy lives in Vienna he makes it or eats it in a restaurant…
The fruit ninja
My son, who many of you know as Dammit Boy, is a 26-year-old research associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. He is…
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November
Leaving home (and Duke’s)
So Dammit Boy and I were at our favorite meat ‘n three today when it suddenly occurred to him that he’s leaving a few essential…
5
November
Blue Apron
I have no idea why I’ve lost such track of time. October 24 to November 5. What in the hell was I doing that I…
21
October
Every wine for its time
I have recently become a wine connoisseur. That’s a lie. I suspect when you drink wine out of a Solo cup you cannot qualify as…
11
October
Biscuit and gravy potato chips
“I am conducting an experiment.” That’s what I told one of my peeps at the convenience store when I lined up five bags of potato…
18
September
Food utopia
I cannot convey too much how excited I am about this weekend. My friend, Mary Ann, is flying in from Washington, D.C. and she, Noah…
15
September
Real tortillas
So this is my driveway at this exact moment as we get a new roof put on the house. There is some kind of generator…
1
September
A shameful day
Sometimes you have a bad day. A shameful day. A day you’re actually regretting while you’re having it. But you do it anyway. That has…
19
August
Smoking like you mean it
When I first learned to smoke with wood more than a decade ago, it was not a pretty sight. I used an El Cheapo Brinkman…
11
June
The best hot dog in the world
So it’s been a hard few weeks for a variety of reasons I won’t go into here because I hate it when people whine on…