Tarantula Burger Coming Up

In the past 6 years, Bull City Burger And Brewery in Durham, North Carolina, has celebrated its April Exotic Meat Month by featuring unusual foods from across the country and around the world. The restaurant has served iguana, alligator, camel, python, turtle, and a variety of insects. This month, it is a tarantula burger being […]

Here’s Your EBT Card and Your Fishing Pole – The DIY Way

When one turns from one street into the parking lot of the grocery store where I shop, or out of it in another direction onto the coastal highway, there always are “homeless” men positioned there, holding hand printed signs on ratty old cardboard, stating they are out of work, and need money for gas, food, or […]

And So It Ends; The Good, The Bad, And The Broken Greenhouse

We have come to the end of another calendar year, and for me, it is a time for evaluation, analysis, and decision making. In the past, I faithfully put pencil to paper, and dreamily made a list of New Year’s resolutions, which I kept no longer than the moments it took to write them down. […]

Aging Epiphany

There are many issues with which we Boomers have to deal, and none is unique to a particular generation, ours or anyone else’s. This legion of things I never considered twenty or thirty years ago pretty much sneaked up on me, an army marching toward me in stocking feet. And, as I pondered new physical, […]

Menu: No Rocks No Woodchips

I wish you could be in my kitchen right now. There is a pot of Tuscan white bean and kale soup simmering, and it smells good! Close your eyes, and it will transport you to Tuscany on a gorgeous autumn morning, where you can stroll through the streets of Montepulciano. Yesterday we visited Mexico by […]