Chop and Roll
I found myself caught in a marathon of Chopped, a cooking reality show. As a writer, reality shows are anathema. I want a carefully crafted story and dialog that zings. Chopped appeals to […]
Food and Fiction
Brakes for Rein’s Reubens
Do you ever drive the I-84 north-south corridor? Then you have to know about Rein’s Deli. No? I grew up just two towns over from this gem but it didn’t take on […]
Bringing Home the Peeps
Driving along Rt 119, I passed this sign outside our local Agway. It immediately sent me back to days of spring rides home from Agway, on the broad backseat of the family […]
Friends for Life, or Not
Winter this year is not whimsical. It’s two-foot deep hard packed snow, now turned icy. It’s temperatures that dip, and stay, in the teens. And it’s an economy tipped heavily toward unemployment. […]
Snip, clip voila Valentine
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would […]
Cold Comfort
I live in a pocket of Massachusetts that has its own weather zone, more like Montreal than Boston. When the temperature nose-dived this past week to minus 16 degrees, I […]