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A Few Bites Back: November 2010
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Monday, November 15, 2010. Home is Where the Tribe Is. Were schooled in the proper way to play a piano. When those lesson were not in session, my grandmother's very few friends might come by and gossip in hushed tones as I strained to hear what was being discussed. Good Southern women did not "gossip", so the whispering I believe was not just for my benefit but for the sake of propriety as well. So it was with great peace and gratitude that I spent Saturday exerc...
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A Few Bites Back: The South Meets the South Seas...Out West. .
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. The South Meets the South Seas.Out West. . I'm sitting down to write this while experimenting with a new beverage option, by Celestial Seasonings. I was looking for black tea on Sunday at PCC. And questioned the woman next to me who I thought was purchasing regular old black tea (sometimes it's hard to tell at PCC, know what I mean? How could it exist? I know, Paleo. Don't be turned off by the trendiness of the term. Michelle Tam...The S...
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A Few Bites Back: One More Cup of Coffee Before You Go....
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Tuesday, March 03, 2015. One More Cup of Coffee Before You Go. Normally my writings here are about food, coupled with memory, specifically about my hometown and childhood home in Spencer, West Virginia. So let me say that I was never so grateful as I was yesterday that I had put a chicken in to roast before I sat down to see why my Facebook inbox was so full of messages. E privilege of a lifetime is being who. Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 11:41:00 AM PST. What an am...
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A Few Bites Back: August 2014
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. The South Meets the South Seas.Out West. . I'm sitting down to write this while experimenting with a new beverage option, by Celestial Seasonings. I was looking for black tea on Sunday at PCC. And questioned the woman next to me who I thought was purchasing regular old black tea (sometimes it's hard to tell at PCC, know what I mean? How could it exist? I know, Paleo. Don't be turned off by the trendiness of the term. Michelle Tam...The S...
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A Few Bites Back: March 2012
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Tuesday, March 06, 2012. You Can Wrap a Pig in a Blanket. The groundhog was right! In these last winding days of winter, as I wait in expectation, trying to observe some Lenten practice that holds me through the tiring darkness, my thoughts of course go to food. It seems that when the cold weather first comes, I celebrate! I can hear the collective gasps of a few of my friends from the Midwest, but dear ones, I am here to tell you, it CAN be done! I knew from his...
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A Few Bites Back: August 2012
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Monday, August 13, 2012. There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and ma. 8213; Nikki Giovanni. And The Farmer gets home. He often asks, jokingly," where do you purchase these wingless birds? This morning my heart weighs heavy with the thought that we will never have that meal. We had so many virtual dinners, though, settling in on our couches through Winter's drear, accompanied by our fe...
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A Few Bites Back: February 2011
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Saturday, February 26, 2011. Dear ones, no child grows up in home with a mentally ill parent without being subjected to some things that we wish children never had to experience. Everyone did their best to pretend all was well, but our large Victorian era living room was so full of pink elephants I'm amazed that my grandmother's Steinway ever fit! To her credit, my mother at least found the whole incident quite amusing. By Jim's evening consumption of something s...
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A Few Bites Back: October 2013
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Sunday, October 13, 2013. Chili Today, Hot Tamale.For My Spencer Family. People who knew my mother appreciated her intelligent and unique sense of humor. Displays of affection in our home were in short supply and almost always awkward, one way we knew how to say "I love you" was to be funny. My mother and I could quickly have each other in big belly laughs simply by repeating the same old joke, with the familiar tag line that never failed. For example,. She defen...
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A Few Bites Back: August 2013
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Saturday, August 10, 2013. And Here's Where We Left Off. I miss thunderstorms, lightening and brilliant fall colors, but not the conditions necessary for nature to deliver them. Frances would "close the house" around 10:00, pulling all the shades, closing all the doors and turning fans on every room to circulate the remaining cool air through the house. God help the child (me) who left the door open too long in either the summer or the winter. "Close the ...My gr...
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A Few Bites Back: May 2015
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A Few Bites Back. It's about the writing. Sunday, May 10, 2015. What I Pulled Back In. Further reflections on my two moms. I have a complicated family back story. Maybe everyone does? I used to say there was no simple question that could be asked about my family. For many years it went like this when getting to know new friends. So where's your dad? In Alabama but I don't know him" (I do now) How many siblings do you have? More most surely and thankfully will be revealed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
