I met a lovely man named Ben and we sat down to talk. He asked me what some of my interests were and I mentioned photography, writing, cooking – the usual things that pop into my mind like I’m writing a personal ad. Then I told him about Learning to Hit the Curve and he though...
to the unnecessarily unique father specializing in crossword puzzles, to the former author and current animal-loving old lady, to the Asian mother and her wacky/sexy daughter. Then there is the scientifically driven young man committed to working out only the right side of...
‘Aquilaria Blossom’ is so-named for what both Taha Syed and Russian Adam imagined what a flower growing out of an Aquilaria tree might smell like. But despite the listed magnolia and neroli, the only floral touches I perceive are brief and upfront, worked into the perfumey bittersweetness ...
As if chocolate wasn’t sexy enough, Barry Callebaut decided to develop and patent a naturally pink-colored chocolate in 2014, and I was in Rome when it finally hit the market in 2018-2019. Suddenly pink chocolate (named ‘Ruby’) was everywhere, from flowy fountains of gloopy pink chocolat...
It was common after all for baby girls to be named for a grandmother. My ethnicity compared with that of a person of color who shares DNA with both Patrice Evans and me. Due to those courthouse fires, for months we had little else to go on. Then Tiffinney found a Grace Mason, born...
After being escorted out of Kings Cross station with concussion, I'm beginning to think my Hogwarts acceptance letter was a hoax. An English cat, named, 'One Two Three' and a French cat, named, 'Un Deux Trois', had a swimming race, 'Un Deux Trois' cat sank. I was watching the...