by me | Jan 23, 2013 | current events, current non-events, Family, food, Home, Richmond VA
I wish I could show you what I’d like to show you on this auspicious occasion, but I can’t. Can’t even tell you why I can’t. It’s that crucial to the future of pie in Richmond. I will say that unless it’s a graham cracker crumb...
by me | Oct 29, 2012 | current events, Environment, Family, Home, Humor, Outdoors
Rock, Paper, Scissors has never been my favorite game. I think right about now, with Sandy en route, I’d prefer the choice of Stone, Plywood, Drill Driver.
by me | Oct 17, 2012 | city living, Family, food, Humor, Richmond VA
It certainly is a mistake for a food tour person to schedule a routine colonoscopy during Restaurant Week. What a waste, so to speak. I will be focused on food prior to and immediately after the event, but not necessarily in ways that lend themselves to blogging. I do...
by me | Sep 26, 2012 | current events, Family, Humor
Who knew that with a name like Maureen Egan, that, if I am to believe the DNA results from a sister, I am actually 23% Scandinavian?! That explains all those Ikea pit stops. 13% Eastern European might explain my occasional sullen-ness. (It’s ok–I can...
by me | Sep 20, 2012 | current non-events, Family, Home, Humor, writing
Not to over-anaylze it–squiggly, wiry, metallic and free-form. Note the juxtapositions. (There are always juxtapositions.) Is it an Alexander Calder mobile rip-off? A caricature done in coat hangers with a nod to irony? Symbolic of Virginia hanging onto...
by me | Aug 29, 2012 | Family, Humor, writing
If you read Dear Abby even rarely, you’ve come across a Pennies from Heaven anecdote. Somebody dies. Somebody who misses the dead person lives and finds a penny. Maybe the penny is from the year of the dead person’s birth, death or wedding–first...
