Oh, home video. People always say it’s wonderful, it’s wonderful to have everything: the cities you saw, the wedding, the first steps, the faces and talk of people we love, gone, still waiting there on tape. When Josie was born there was some pressure to take video. But we didn’t want video. I find no [...]
A little rerun for the weekend; hope you enjoy another look at Dads, fried chicken, creamed corn and Eisenhower. Happy Father’s Day with love, to you and yours, both then and now. Father’s Day, and All Its Parts Originally posted June 20, 2009 We’re on the road this weekend, toward Western Kansas, to Abilene, to [...]
Posted in Josie, family, fruit desserts on Jun 6th, 2010
Josie turned 14 last week. A teenager. Of course she was a teen last year, being 13 and all, and possibly even before that at 12, which I recall as spiked with previews. Still – if 13 has training wheels, then 14 speeds away. You can let it run you over, and you can also [...]
Posted in family, seafood, sketchbook on Apr 12th, 2010
Every season’s change, like pollen surfing a breeze, new readers float toward Simmer. I don’t know if it’s warm air, light rain or laptop-friendly sun, but something about spring equals something new to read. So welcome new readers, pull up a chair. And ice cream. You’d think the best welcome mat would be a shiny [...]
One breezy Chicago summer, my brother and I built a treehouse. Wait! You don’t need that intro again. You don’t need to hear me wax poetic about books in the trees, or Jo March, or the Bobbsey Twin’s Luau. You just need to know that today we’re revisiting Great Reads for Culinary Kids, and that [...]
