On the flight back from the Twin Cities last week, I pushed the electronics shut-down edict to the limit, finishing up a call on my iPhone (4, but who’s counting?) and whipping off a text to my daughter as the plane pushed back from the gate. I knew it was time to …
A standard question at cocktail parties used to be, “Do you remember where you were when you heard that John Kennedy was shot?” These days, if you’re going to use a tragedy as a conversation starter, you will have updated; you’re more likely to go with, say, 9/11 or Gabrielle Giffords. Also, …
I always like to go to new places, like, say Plantation, Florida, which I’m visiting on my upcoming book tour. But I’m a little worried by the ambiguity of the city’s motto: “The grass is greener.” Do they mean there is no place so verdant as Plantation? Or are they warning me …
Okay, it’s time to start blowing my horn…my new book, The Crabby Cook Cookbook is in my hands and in stores and on Amazon and all over the place! After almost three years of writing, cooking and cursing (heavy on the latter), I can’t quite believe it! If you, too, are having …