One of the best Christmas presents my Dad ever gave me was my very own subscription to Gourmet Magazine. Dad was a talented self-taught chef himself, storing stacks of Gourmets on the shelves that held his cookbooks. He was proud that I had shown a knack with a knife as …
Warm and cool. Spiky and smooth. The colors of rose petal and rose leaf. Coral, the slow-growing reef left by the tiny houses of sea creatures. Jade, the super-hard stone honored in China. It’s the symbol of good luck, good health, happiness, longevity, peace and wealth. (To say nothing of …
A colleague recently warned me to avoid our state capitol campus this weekend. (Being that we’re many months from cherry-blossom season, this was no hardship.) The reason wasn’t hard to guess. State houses attract protesters like blossoms attract bees. The decision by the Supreme Court to decline the frivolous lawsuit …
I won a splendid palomino pony, with a flaxen tail and spindrift mane, soft brown eyes and an elegant stride. It’s the best pony ever! And it shall be mine… as soon as the lady who thinks she won it in the holiday White Elephant gift exchange hands it over …
This week, I watched, amazed, as one Gabriel Sterling, an elections official in Georgia, delivered an update that went beyond the mundane details of the recount. (Thank you, Georgia Public Broadcasting.) It was full of “cold, hard fury” (as one Twitter commenter described it). If you haven’t seen it, here …
