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Everyone in the Good Ol’ USofA has a gramma that was the “pie” gramma. This gramma is the keeper of the secrets of baking. This was the gramma that stood at the kitchen counter when we were kids and using nothing but a rolling pin and air (as far as we knew) baked delicacies fit [...]

When I was a young man: a new father in fact; my father-in-law said to us one day:” We should sally forth, to the land of my birth in search of the holy grail”. I knew that his cause was just, and his honor true.
Being but a squire at the time, I attended [...]

Once in a decade or so, an image so impacts me, that it feels like there is a physical weight on my chest. An example  would be the  little girl in the Shake and Bake commercial from the 60’s -  “And I helped”.  It was just such a weird and twisted image. Betty Crocker [...]

As a writer, I am often wont to do a little research before I flesh out a concept or narrative. In this particular case, I got in my cyber-car and drove over to WIKI with a query on the origins of “Scotch” in scotch tape. This is just the word that I find myself using [...]

Beed⋅li⋅cious
/bɪdˈlɪʃəs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [beed-lish-uhs] Show IPA
–adjective
1. highly pleasing to the senses, esp. to taste or smell: a beedlicious dinner; a beedlicious aroma.
2. very pleasing; delightful: a beedlicious sense of humor.
–noun
3. (initial capital letter) a red or yellow variety of apple, cultivated in the U.S.
So, I’m on the phone the other day with my daughter. [...]

On one level, everything has a point of reference. Every thought comes from another. An instance, a pinprick in time.
Then there are sea gulls. They are like watching toddlers at the beach. I know it is their instinct that fuels their movement. This appears to make them even more human.
They wait on the beach, first [...]

Earnest Hemingway just ran by. He looked like some Greek Neptune – Chiseled. Granite. Solid. Even his features were mythic. He skated across my canvas.
Behind him, gentle swells rise and fall. Sea air charges him.
He’s tethered to a mystical animal by some sort of umbilicus.
This odd vision of a God tethered to a dog [...]

Sung to the tune of “It’s too Darn Hot” from Kiss Me Kate (yes, Bur and Red – an homage for you). Just flew in from Arizona and boy are my arms tired.
The grass seems greener on the other side of the hill. I can remember standing in the shivering cold of a number of [...]

I think there are certain essential qualities to the American experience. One of these is the traditional parade that comes along with the County Fair. Now come back with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear…But seriously Mr. Peabody, where is the Wayback machine?

Back to the experience, you can pretty much insert the name of [...]