12/15/2011 8:00 AM
Sorry, Michael Bay, but your version of Transformers never lived up to my childhood expectations.
Each flick was a fun ride, don't get me wrong -- except maybe that ...
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12/14/2011 3:12 PM
I found a cache of wicker baskets in my attic.
More specifically, Lubbock found them when he volunteered to investigate what was up there, as I've never felt compelled ...
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12/14/2011 8:00 AM
I want to learn how to knit.
It's been a pseudo-desire of mine for years, at least since Loops at Utica Square opened. Since then, around October, I think something ...
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12/13/2011 11:27 AM
Once again, Jeanne Moos has given people something to talk about.
The New York-based national news correspondent for CNN recently did a piece on the uproar over ...
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12/13/2011 7:30 AM
Sauces make me nervous for multiple reasons.
For starters, I've never really mastered my favorite ones, particularly alfredo. Not that I've tried it recently, but ...
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12/12/2011 4:44 PM
I just finished off a big ol' bar of lust.
First, though, a clarification: Are you wondering what the L lagniappe means? For the uninitiated, I usually write a lagniappe ...
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12/11/2011 7:00 AM
Love me some Fruity Pebbles ( quel surprise ), but they just wouldn't taste right with cayenne pepper.
Of all the cereals that spring to my holiday-addled mind at ...
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12/8/2011 7:00 AM
Mamaw would cut my water off if she knew I was telling you this.
'Cut his/her water off' was a phrase she used time to time, typically in reference to someone whose ...
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12/7/2011 7:00 AM
If we had a suggestion box at work, I'd drop in a piece of paper with the words 'arts and crafts recess' scribbled on it. And, while I'm thinking about it, 'nap time.'
On ...
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12/6/2011 7:30 AM
I almost butchered a cow with my car the other morning.
Upon leaving Rancho de los Johnstons, the real name of which I've changed to protect its owners' reputations, ...
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12/5/2011 7:30 AM
Preheat your oven, and grab some flour -- we're gonna make pie crusts! Or, at least, dirty-up the kitchen trying.
Last week, I told y'all via blog about my Mamaw ...
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12/2/2011 7:30 AM
Two of my favorite people in the world in 1993 were from Sweden: Maud Adams and Stellan Skarsgard.
Not really. But I became great friends with two Swedish exchange ...
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