11/30/2011 7:30 AM
My Mamaw Walters made THE perfect pie crusts.
I know I'm probably romanticizing it just a smidge, as good childhood memories are often gilt-framed. But she was baking ...
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11/29/2011 4:05 PM
I was actually given permission (i.e., I translated whatever I was told to mean what I wanted to hear) to spice-up my blog post titles with a smidgen of sensationalism. ...
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11/18/2011 11:39 AM
I love Jeanne Moos.
She's the correspondent who does all those fabulously odd stories for CNN, her most recent -- and, perhaps, my new favorite -- being 'You Stuck ...
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11/18/2011 7:00 AM
I'm not sure when it started, but Lord V and I have been saying 'yo mama' to one another for years.
This probably isn't the proper thing a fully sane person would ...
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11/17/2011 7:00 AM
Christmas of 1986 started out so jolly to have ended so violently.
As we did every year, Dad's side of the family gathered at Mamaw Wright's for our annual Christmas ...
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11/16/2011 7:00 AM
I'm not sure why I think this, but pirate talk -- i.e., 'yar,' 'ahoy, matey' and 'watch me peg leg or I'll make ye walk the plank' -- has always seemed like something ...
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11/14/2011 7:00 AM
You know that filter people have that gives them pause before they say something inappropriate or flat-out stupid? Yeah, I don't have that.
This is especially true ...
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11/11/2011 7:30 AM
If I could travel back in time, I'd slap myself for not eating green bean casserole.
Some people -- perhaps those who subscribe to both Saveur and Bon Appetit magazines, ...
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11/10/2011 8:00 AM
I used to enjoy hiccups as a kid.
Of course, I also used to like chin puppets and, as I strangely admitted to my co-workers on Wednesday afternoon, raw (i.e., ...
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11/9/2011 8:00 AM
If hips don't lie, Shakira, my right one's been screaming truths at me all dang day.
It seems I'm clumsy -- not a total shock, I'm sure, if you've met me at least ...
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11/8/2011 8:00 AM
I've never needed an excuse to eat.
Happy? Sounds like ice cream time. Depressed? Skip the Kleenex, pass the chips and salsa.
End of the world? Well, there's ...
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11/7/2011 3:44 PM
I'm amazed I don't have an ugly and/or tacky Christmas sweater haunting my wardrobe.
To my knowledge, I never had one, even as a kid whose mommy picked out his clothes ...
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