I have a confession to make. I cheat in the kitchen.
My friends would argue with this. They’d tell you how I inherited a slightly-less-severe case of my mother’s Martha Stewart Complex. They would explain how I always insist upon making things from scratch that normal people just buy — coleslaw, potato salad, [...]

Part 1: Peaches
On Saturday morning, despite his better judgment (and with promises of a nap later), I drug EAToo out of bed and downtown to the Memphis Farmers’ Market. Just a couple of blocks from the Mississippi River, the Memphis Farmers’ Market is a bit of a drive from the suburbs, but it’s [...]

Yesterday, I received one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me. My mother had mentioned last week that she had a box in her workroom that she needed to give me; yesterday, when I was at her house, she reminded me to go upstairs and get the box out of her craft [...]

Yesterday was a good day. Why? Because for the first time in weeks, if not months, we had nothing planned to do.
Now, that wasn’t the case last week, and it won’t be the case this week. Most nights we’re out doing something or other. Lately, it has often been soccer (four-year-old [...]