by me | Oct 25, 2014 | city living, current events, food, Quirky Richmond, REAL RICHMOND, Richmond VA, Travel, writing
So it’s been a while. And the alliteration keeps coming. Even when actual thoughts do not. But I have been thinking about you, blog, just haven’t had any thoughts that aren’t Fire, Flour & Fork-related, coming up Oct. 30th-Nov. 2nd, 2014, so I...
by me | Apr 24, 2014 | business, city living, current events, food, Humor, Quirky Richmond, REAL RICHMOND, Richmond VA, Travel, writing, writing for children
I don’t pretend to be a food writer though I have tweeted more than 12,000 times and most have involved either putting food or my foot in my mouth or putting words together halfway wittily which is different from half-witted. Then there’s my...
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 | Jul 17, 2013 | business, current non-events, Humor, writing
Somewhere in the run-up to my 30th college reunion–which I did not attend–I received a survey to fill out from the alumni office. They’ve never lost me in all these 30 years, but they must keep hoping they have the wrong Maureen Egan (there were two...
by me | Feb 4, 2013 | current non-events, Family, Home, Humor, writing
It is unnerving to see how much paper has accumulated in the filing cabinets in this house. Note that I didn’t say I had accumulated the paper but the paper has accumulated. Paper makes me passive. Or feel passive. Or passive-aggressive. Sure don’t want to...
by me | Jan 9, 2013 | current non-events, writing, writing for children
For about 10 years I’ve kept a list of what books I read each year. It would be handier if I actually remembered to write down every book I did in fact read, but it’s a better source than me answering the question, “What have you been reading...