During a late sweep through the dark corners of my mother’s attic, I stumbled upon a moldering shrine to one of my paternal great-aunts. Louise Bickers, a.k.a “Weezer,” was a feisty single woman whom I loved like a grandmother. With affectionate if drowsy interest, I dragged over ...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
“Food is a memory. The bread pudding we do is based off my dad’s mother’s recipe. My dad says it’s the closest rendition he’s ever had, it’s just different. The thing that’s different is she saved up all the scrap bread from the bread she used to make. I’m using a ...
He filled me up with tequila sours and we shared a sweet night in my hotel room. Ricardo did not look like my dad, but he did have a beard like his. He spoke Spanish like him. He was older like him. He had HIV like him. And, for that one night, he treated me preciously. ...
I thought my eleventh-grade year of high school was going to be a great and memorable experience until I found out some horrible news. One day in November 2016 I was sitting on the couch with my dad and he asked me how I would feel if we moved to Louisiana for his job. I ...
I noticed my Dad was participating in the procession, but my mum and Bea ji stood idly next to me. So I whispered to my Bea ji, “why aren’t you with Dad?” Her hushed response emptied my heart. “Because, Pindie, we are not allowed. We are women.” After sharing this story,...
in which he won a gold medal), the Children’s Zoo (now closed due to the city’s budget issues – home to the Detroit Zoo before its move to Royal Oak), the Aquarium (also now closed due to budget constraints), the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory (which has one of the largest ...
At what point did a Joseon man grow a beard? Shouldn’t the Crown Prince be bearded, he is married and a father? Inconsequential but I’ve wondered this for a long time and this CP reminded me. Thanks to @alathe for another great recap and thanks to all you Beanies for brilliant ...
My Name Is Earl: Created by Gregory Thomas Garcia. With Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez. A ne'er do well wins $100,000 in the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization!
We have a solid chat with MasterChef’s Aaron Harvie behind the scenes to talk about the dinner, and we also catch up with fellow MasterChef contestants Matt Caldicott and Jonathan Daddia. And, yes, there’s plenty of me blabbering away. And while we couldn’t fully capture the energy ...