Wednesday Missives

Superbowl perspective

The Superbowl is over for another year. People are happy or sad about the outcome, based on their life-long affinity for one team or another, or sometimes based more on whim. If someone won last year, that team is sort of automatically served up as the Goliath that...
Guest poetry today

Guest poetry today

Gene tries his hand at poetry, Keri tries hers at changing the world.

Scumbag advertiser

Scumbag advertiser

Picture someone holding up a can of high-sodium, high-fat processed soup with minimal nutritional value. Then imagine them touting the soup’s healthy home-cooked recipe. Add flash bangs and domestic military incursions and you’re presidential.

Corona, time and pastry

Corona, time and pastry

A momentous time of doing nothing and everything. Capturing how it felt for posterity is not corny at all.

Quite a week.

Quite a week.

What to be proud of in the USA, 2020 edition.

What’s up, my multitude?

What’s up, my multitude?

What I do when I am not cooking and eating, and then, again, what I’m cooking and eating.

Favorite story

Favorite story

Bougainvillea, and a plea for us to get past partisanship and unite against the politicians playing us like a big ol’ xylophone.

Guest Post today!

Guest Post today!

Gene M. Culver is the guest blogger today with a review of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs – sounds like a riveting read!

Mom’s day

Mom’s day

An ode to Mom, to home, to our origins, to the love, humor, and delicious hamburgers that remind me who I am.