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 …
Enchantment April 3, 2020 Number 1 – Delivery
I’ll never be able to claim the idea as original. It was Krista Tippett in her podcast who spoke with author Ross Gay, and their conversation prompted me to begin. …
Wanda Key Turner | Corn Muffins
She was my catalog of can do. Craning my neck as a child I watched her diminutive body, topped with an elegant french twist, commandeer the pipe organ at the …
Bucket List for the Ages | Tarragon Oil
A while ago I met a friend for coffee and a man typing on his laptop sitting nearby asked if I was who I am, and yes, I said, I …
Lovey Armstrong | Meringue
Lovey. She put the whirl in my girl. When I think of her, I am back in the dark green clubhouse that was underneath the magnolia supplanting her entire front …
Page Turner | Quiche with a Side of Tomato Aspic
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/1391099 Ding. A new year. A new list of completed reads (click the above link for the books I read in 2019). Is there a better resolution for the yellow …
Know. It. All. | Finger Sandwiches
Trips through the grocery store are now perfunctory. I switched to CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) as a source of food some 18 years ago, so when I go to the …
Freda | Spinach Salad with a Cheese Cookie
Every time I slip into my three-inch heels, I blow a kiss to the memory of my Great Aunt Alfreda Blanks Gates McGee Franklin. I’ll trust that everyone has the …
Ethel | West Indies Crab Salad
She was 61 and I was 24 when we met at the see and be seen location of Lefleurs Restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi. Dalton and I were writing the first …
Choose Your Adventure | Another Chicken Salad
My granddaughter Pepper said, “Guys. Can you help me catch the lighting bugs? Can you hear them? Gal?” And no I cannot actually hear them, but no doubt they are …