Send in the clowns / Don’t bother they’re here Stephen Sondheim Every April 23 and 24th ish, D and I honor the memory of my parents’ births with sanctuary flowers …
Enchantment April 11, 2020 Number 2 – Bird Bathing
You must throw caution to the wind to maintain a backroad mindset. I was trained to do so by my lumber-wholesaling father. Armed with a stainless steel Stanley Thermos filled …
Dalton on Duty | Minute Steaks
When I met my husband, he was a green young lawyer with a bright young brain. He possessed an uncommon dignity. Newly unencumbered, he was free from a full leg …
Revelations in Tapping | Mexican Hummus
With a self imposed sense of discovery for the new year, I mustered an open heart for unfamiliar territory. An assigned seat brought a harvest of good fortune. On …
Refinement by Human | Roasted Edamame
Pappy was a narcissist. My pipe smoking architect grandfather had good reason to walk the egocentric path, the only child of an older professional couple (lawyer and teacher). He …
Canal Street Basement | AKA Pear Relish
The first scary things in life cling like the contacts on my eyeballs which have been key for sight since 1966. I shiver to think what my plight would …
Private Art Showing | Late Summer Vegetable Minestrone
Some might say our garage is in better shape than most. Nothing fancy, it is lined with pressed board and a window and an automatic garage door opening; it …
Rural Road Wisdom | Blueberry Breakfast Tada
Encoded in my genetic hoorah is a propensity for getting off the beaten path. As far as I can tell, despite the fact that it can double my mileage, the …
Rule the Yazoo Summer Day | Marinated Cukes, Red Onions, Tomatoes and Herbs
I was a restless young one always looking for an episode. One scorching Mississippi Delta afternoon after I folded clothes from the line and helped Grandaddy pick vegetables; after I …
Sista Soiree | Maw’s Biscuit
Every Monday night for eight years, amid the hurl and burl of a small Middle Tennessee town, two women connected by marriage find their way to an extraordinary kitchen. …