by me | Sep 21, 2021 | Books, current non-events, Home, writing, writing for children
A couple of weeks ago I couldn’t get to sleep, so I counted bookshelves instead of sheep (shout out to Kate Wolf’s line, “Countin’ troubles, ‘stead of countin’ sheep.”) I have no idea what number I came up with, but it was in...
by me | Apr 3, 2014 | current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Humor
I’m not sure if I will rate more or less of that once this gets posted. In my refrigerator when I first wrote this were way too many house made Sour Watermelon Gummy Bears. I had very little to do with the making of them and even less to do with the eating...
by me | Jan 8, 2014 | city living, current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Humor, Richmond VA, writing
I found the fountain of youth last month, but I’m not interested in partaking of it again. It was at a Catholic church here in town during Advent. Almost as soon as I walked in the door with my 81-year-old mother, I felt transported back to...
by me | Dec 11, 2013 | current non-events, Family, food, Holidays, Home, Humor, richmond magazine
It’s the time of year when people focus even more than usual on food. Grocery stores are stocked with holiday must-haves. Time to bake and shop and simmer. Yet the week before Thanksgiving I was stewing over what I was going to drink with a bottle of Mirilax to...
by me | Nov 13, 2013 | city living, current non-events, Family, food, Humor, REAL RICHMOND, Richmond VA, Travel
I might be the only non-homeless woman in the United States who walks into an Ann Taylor Loft dressing room with a couple pairs of pants and a shirt to try on with a 1/3 of a pound of sliced chorizo in my bag. It was Zoe’s chorizo from Formaggio and it was what...
by me | Oct 16, 2013 | current non-events, Family, Humor, Outdoors, Travel
I’m a mild-mannered sort. Until I’m not. Last month while on vacation, I sat on a porch and shamelessly ogled a shirtless guy who ran by the house every day–up and back. Not so surprising in a beach town with lovely weather (the running, that is) but...
