Tag: essay
My quest for amazing brisket led me to a new butcher in Kirkwood
During the High Holidays, I experience a sudden urge to quest for and cook authentic Jewish food. Finding a perfect brisket isn't always easy, but with perfect timing, a buzzy new butcher/baker, Evergreen, recently opened near my neighborhood in Kirkwood.
Confessions of a yardworkaholic
A few summers ago, as my family pulled into our Kirkwood driveway after a vacation, my yardwork addiction hit a low point. Before unloading a single boogie board or sand-dusted chair, I scurried into our front yard and yanked out a few weeds. I couldn’t stand their presence another second.
Growing older has me trading bar carts for tea sets—and I’m perfectly okay with that
One thing I’ve learned is that with age comes the wisdom to know that trends will come and go, but classic design will never go out of style.
Embracing my inner “wintrovert”
Wintroversion takes many years of faithful practice. It is a meditation, a seasonal discipline. It is a time that spans the end of an old year and beginning of the new, which invites metamorphosis. Things slow down, and your body is given the grace to catch up with your life.
That Tree Has Been Here
I’m heading to Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, and when I arrive, I’ll meet Ernest J. Gaines himself.
Essay: Sometimes we are blind to to the beauty of this world
On this morning the sky was a transparent blue-and-white bowl, resting upside down on the far horizons. Situated within this bowl was my heartland, my beloved Georgia. The sky was as blue as china, as blue as a bluebird, cerulean blue, the blue of the Caribbean, blue as the bluest eye; it arched like a cathedral over me, vaulted over everything I love, and I was in love with everything it covered, whether I wanted to love or not.