The Last Potato
This past Sunday night, I ate dinner at my parent's house. Also in attendance were my sister and her new husband. It was a simple dinner of grilled hot dogs with all the fixins and pan-fried potato slices. The meal was more about the company than the food itself. I...
The Blind Date From Hell (pt2)
I pulled up to Becky's place in my Mustang and lightly tapped the horn, as she'd asked me to do. I waited. And waited. The house wasn't in the best part of town which should have tipped me off right there but I'm an eternal optimist. I tapped the horn again and...
On Scrivel: “Going Home”
I have a new piece on Scrivel I think you'll enjoy very much. It's a nostalgic piece in the same vein as Pat Conroy and a direction I hope some of my writing will take: Going Home
The Blind Date From Hell (pt1)
It was the summer of '91 and the first time in my life since I'd began dating that I found myself alone. I just came off an engagement break-up and had met a girl at college who went home for the summer. She would eventually become my first wife seven years later...
The Picky Eater
For 37 years now, I have been an extremely picky eater. I can't help it, it's just who I am. I won't eat certain foods for the stupidest reasons. What reasons? You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Of course, I'll try. And maybe some of you out there will learn...
The Jew and the Bacon
BLT - hold the L and T I have two bosses, a 49-yr old Korean woman and an 86-yr old Jewish man. The woman is the caring, motherly type that treats me like another son. The old man is a codgy bugger who built a couple million-dollar companies up from scratch and now...
That Time of the Year
It's here, it's finally here! I never thought it would come but now it has. Dove Season officially opened in North Carolina on Labor Day!! Yep, you heard me. It's now legal to go out and shoot those pesky doves that are always eating up the garden. The good thing...
I Follow The Moose Tracks
Moose Tracks is one of the most popular ice cream flavors around. Created by Denali Flavors , it first came on the market in the mid-90s and has steadily swept the nation. I first remember trying it with Wife #1 in a little ice cream parlor on the waterfront in...
Our Old Food
Old people like to eat certain foods that no one else eats. Or at the very least, foods they are stereotyped to eat because it's a dying food. Like them. I've always wondered why certain foods follow generations and then disappear. Then I wonder, what will by my...
What 37 Means To Me
I had a birthday this past Thursday. I turned 37. Getting older means different things to different people. Thirty-seven isn't a magic number by any means, to most people, but to me, it promises to be a year to remember. What does 37 mean to me? The year of 37 is...