Nuts
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...
Sing it With Me
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...
Pork Belly of Sorts
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...
Rico, We Hardly Knew Ye
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...
Things That Don’t Go Bump in the Night
It was a dark and stormy night when my husband and I arrived in Cape May for a September vacation, so we didn’t do much gazing off into the distance as we unloaded what we needed to get to bed. The next night, Friday, the 13th as it happened, I was out on the...ME on Twitter
I just gave $100 to Donate Now. Join me and help them reach their goal! #RVA #Literacy #GivingTuesday
For the third year in a row, we will be holding our Sponsor an Incarcerated Reader fundraiser starting on #GivingTuesday2023! Thanks to the @DominionPostWV for writing about this program. Read the article to learn more, and stay tuned to participate!