Here’s a new one. Before heading to Nashville (I live some 45 minutes south in Columbia), always, always I swoop around the Maury County Courthouse, park and run into Muletown …
Devoted | Milky Way Cake
There would be no visible sympathy for the new kid in town. This was a practical lesson for the future. New to town was a good-for-you sorta prescription for children …
Born 84 Years Apart | French Fries
My people have always tended toward the small talk speculation of who in the family takes after whom. New born babes get the hard line review: “She has her Daddy’s …
Dessert Phantoms | Angel Food Lemonade Cake
That dessert. Just like a spring released mechanism, my body sat up in bed to absorb the pitchness of the hour. I claimed the culprit: disruptive late night calories taken …
Sardine Therapy | A Simple Lunch
During Easter luncheon this year, our host invited all at the table to tell a personal detail of which others would be surprised. The truth is I love the idea …
How to Stop and Evaluate Your Own Behavior |Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad
I’ve never met Colonel Littleton in person. He might know my credit card number though. He is a specialty in every way – his look, his handcrafted products and his …
Carlene Cater Blanks | Candied Violets
While plotting a plan during my jangling twenties, I happened upon a pair of oil paintings over a friend’s fireplace in Texas. Blinking I edged toward the familiar subject matter …
Resolute Reading | Nuts to Snack Upon
Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King A short week after my mother’s life was stilled by an embolism, I had a technicolor dream where, as protagonist, she starred …
Home Baker Serves Up Family Jewels
printed in The Clarion Ledger – Jackson, Mississippi This time last year I was cranking up a long-winded baking chat with Sheree Rose Kelley. Her husband Alton, CEO of Belle …
About-face | Edwina’s Bolts & Nuts
The only way I can describe it is a tiny shift in perception. The soft feeling was born from time spent in solitude, more and longer stints than ever in …