A Writer Afoot

We lost the Safeway nearby our house about four or five months ago. There was some sort of scuffle over the lease, and Safeway moved out.  It was sudden–and for me–dismaying.  I am a Safeway customer, and have been for many years.  Not that any other store is better or worse, but once [...]

In the summer, I eat a watermelon every week.  This started when I was a young married and my ex brought home watermelons every Friday.  He had a knack for choosing the sweetest melon on the pile, and when he found an especially fantastic one, he would call his mother.  I’m not [...]

Earlier this week, I shared some travel blogs I like to visit.   I saved this one for a special highlight for our foodie fix: 

Pinch My Salt, which has won a plethora of awards from all kinds of sources, so it’s not just me telling you to go wander around.   It’s the food [...]

As children, we always got to choose our birthday dinner, and this was my choice, year in year out. The year I was fourteen, I ate seven.  It was rarely less than five.  Mmmm, mmm, mmm.

My mother’s recipe–simple and fantastic, especially excellent if you want to impress a guy.  Not fancy and [...]

From Teach Me Tonight, the blog collective of a small and intelligent group of romance writers/readers who are also academics:

Sadly, academic criticism and theory of the romance—whether literary criticism, sociological analysis, editorial theory, or feminist scrutiny—has not kept up with the changes in the genre. Janice Radway’s sociological evaluation of romance readers [...]