My late Grandma Mae called my parents nearly every day until her death in 2008 at the age of 92. Her inquiries were nearly always the same: “What’s new?†“What’s the weather doin’ over there?†“How’s your firewood holding up?†But one of her predominant questions was as much to […]
Imagine a morning, a coming of winter morning when you exclaim, “Oh, my! It’s fruitcake weather!†Truman Capote did, and upon reading his story, “A Christmas Memory†for the first time about a decade ago, I never quite felt the same about Capote, Christmas or fruitcake. I was always a […]
I don’t consider myself a great pie baker, and I’ve not made a lot of pies. I’ve had better success with other baked goods. The problem I have – which recurs in any number of areas of my life – is I suffer from great anxiety about pie baking, and […]