I was searching high and low for turkey drumsticks. They’re normally available in most local stores, but suddenly, the weekend before the holiday, we couldn’t…
Pronounce the dot.
I was searching high and low for turkey drumsticks. They’re normally available in most local stores, but suddenly, the weekend before the holiday, we couldn’t…
A photo I took in 2005 was recently used to spur a collaborative writing assignment. I have no idea where the class was even located.…
Today I’m giving thanks to so many people who have given me so much over the past year. To all of my co-workers, for helping…
If you’re in range of WTUL you will of course want to listen to Big Al’s “Ballads to Baste Your Bird By” tonight from 6-8…
It took me a while to get around to scanning this photo/art from the girl’s daycare. Better late than never, yes?
Today we gathered with friends and family — well, really it was just our little minimalist nuclear family and our friend James. We thanked Dame…
After the culinary fiasco of 2004, I approached this year’s Thanksgiving with some trepidation. My confidence was not bolstered when Xy finally read the creme…
I’ve gotten the staining done. It took four days of solid work, plus a half-day of touch up this morning, not to mention a day…
Xy picked up this bust at a yard sale around the corner a couple years ago. Recently one of our feline boarders knocked it off…
Xy flew up to Indiana to visit her family. I stayed here in New Orleans because, frankly, I had enough of Indiana during my evacuation…
We went out to my parents’ house for an early Thanksgiving meal. I got a chance to see my sister and her family for the…
I’ve been skeptical of Thanksgiving for years. There are two conceptions of Thanksgiving which seem to be etched into my mind from early childhood: The…
It’s Rachel taking a smoke break in front of her house in Baltimore. Xy is wearing a scarf Rachel knitted for her. But who took…