the merry season, the busy time of year when easy dinners are appreciated, and the larger crowds that come to the table for holiday celebrations, I thought it would be ideal to highlight her recipe for Chicken Thighs with Cinnamon and Dates. It’s easy to make, ...
gifts, and letters and put them in a box to reminisce later. Talking out loud, “She takes just like a woman, but she will not break like a little girl.” No more hours fanning the past; on this day
in a tough spot here when we arrived five years ago (next to a cedar tree with challenging surface roots – nothing else will grow there) continue to flourish. The orangey-red ones always seem to open first, followed by the pale pink, and then the coral ones, which are still to come...
and in part to the Commonwealth Games taking over which I know everyone found to be an enormous uplifting success for the city, and finally now Pride is back in its rightful spot as the first of the year in the UK over the late May bank holiday weekend. This...
When I was in Argentina the first time, I was staying with my (now ex) boyfriend’s family and they went up the street to the carniceria to buy “meats” which was literally a bag of random meat from a cow. Every type of meat that wasn’t a specific cut was in there. Mostly thi...
Our cunning plan came together, as those who would have been otherwise inclined to stay in their room and gloom through the holiday were seized by the spirit of competition in decorating their doors with wrapping paper, and lights, to buy small plastic fir trees downtown and put them in ...
A few weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast, the Texas school where I teach collected furniture and other household items for a family from Louisiana that had lost everything. I thought of how sad it would be to lose all of the things that hel
The heart of the fireworks action is, of course, along theBenjamin Franklin Parkway. If the fireworks are your main event, a good time to start staking out a spot to stand or sit (chairs and blankets are permitted) is around 8 p.m. If being near the stage isn’t necessary fo...
This is not, by the way, to be construed as me expressing a dislike or even a hatred of LGBT-BLT individuals. I just don’t care what consenting adults get up to in private; haven’t cared for simply decades. (The operative words here are consenting, adult and private. Like Mrs. Pa...
Klaus dropped me off at a train station in San Lorenzo, and I had to transfer 3 times to get to Bergamo where I had booked a suspiciously cheap hotel near the train station. There were drug dealers outside the door when I first met the organizer, a very tattooed and pierced young wom...