Anxious until they arrive; frosts cover their beds with thin white lace many nights until winter’s early spring displaces brutal chills with gentle breezes, warm as lovers’ lips, their welcome kisses, life-giving as sunshine, its arousal.
Riesling is a versatile wine that can enhance food flavors, including desserts. Many think of Riesling as a sweet wine, but it can be bone dry. But for now, let’s consider the sweet versions of Riesling. Taste is subjective; one person’s “sweet” can be another person’s “off-dry” or slightly sweet. A recently purchased Reisling was... Read More
Scene: Mamie and Solly stare at their moth-eaten-looking front lawn from their sidewalk and debate about what might be happening there in another reality. Solly (pointing): I think it’s a sinkhole, Mamie. Forming on our front lawn. Covered it with a tarp. City engineer coming to take a look. Plumber might be able to fix... Read More
The Upside of Anger (6/10 Rating) Released March 11, 2005 (Limited) Streaming on Max, For rent/purchase on all major platforms. Genre: Comedy, Drama R: Language, Sexual Situations, Brief Comic Violence, and Some Drug Use 1h 58m In the 90s two-time Oscar winner Kevin Costner was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, but by the... Read More
This snow seemed to arrive quickly in the evening, like a surprise, or it would have been without the Weather Channel’s radar and the endless beforehand “harping” on it by the weather reporters. Maybe the fact the snow’s predicted arrival was off by about an hour or so injected that little bit of “old-time” surprise... Read More
When Hallie Moore Timmons first picked up a body paint brush in middle school, she saw it as nothing more than a creative way to pass the time. Little did she know her hobby of recreating images on herself would eventually lead her to Broadway, where she would help bring historical figures to life in... Read More
In my life, the calendar has been turned to the month of February 73 times; but one particular “February-turning” stands out in 1970, a few weeks short of my 19th birthday, while a freshman at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. Some years ago (not 1970), also in February, I heard a local TV weatherman... Read More
Scene: Mamie, standing in blustering wind in a Midwestern, middle-class cul-de-sac with baggage strewn around their van, is watching Solly, up on a stool outside on the passenger side, fiddling with the car-top carrier’s attachment to the roof rack. Mamie (hands at waist, elbows out): Solly, what’s happening here? Have you lost your mind? Solly... Read More
If you like wine and chocolate, why not enjoy them together? You can, but there are things to consider. Lucia Capretti’s article, “The Ultimate Guide to Wine and Chocolate Pairing, ” which appeared on The Tasting Table website recently, is a good source for these things to consider. For example, I like dark chocolate with... Read More
Drink it as an elixir? Wonderful that way, a curative for your blues on days when nothing seems sweet. When disappointment reigns like a tempestuous monarch whose bitter approach robs good times of their life-giving exuberance.
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