Knowledge is Power...and Smothered Chicken is America
In my latest podcast, due out later this month, I will do a deep-ish dive into the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by...
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Beaches, Peaches, and Mermaids
In the latest episode of my podcast, Cocktail Party Takeaways, I take on T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Unlike...
Save the Planet, Save Your Face
My son is home from college and it seems that living amongst all those smart, striving, well-intentioned young people has reawakened the...
This one is about the Hungry Club, but it's not about food
As I make a new round of edits to my memoir, I have been digging ever deeper into my father's papers and into events from half a century...
The American Dream is dead. How about a drink?
In honor of my two-part podcast on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, allow me to mix up some Jazz Age cocktails. In Chapter Seven,...
It's Cookie MONSTER Season
It’s October and you know what that means, moms. The cutout cookie death march is about to begin. You have to make ghost and pumpkin iced...
Who am I cooking for, anyway?
When my husband is out of town, I don't cook. I have no idea why. It's not because he "expects" me to cook, and so when he is absent, I...
You can SO make homemade pasta!
When I was a young reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I had a group of friends who liked to get together and cook elaborate...
When a knife feels better than a pen
As much as I love writing, and as much as I love reading, studying, teaching, and talking about great works of literature, I also love to...
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