My oldest son Brody will graduate from high school tomorrow and the both of us are pretty relaxed about it. In fact, I still have to find a restaurant that will hold all of us, but it’s still early in the day. It wasn’t ideal that I had to teach him how to shave, how…
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American Thanksgiving is a serious tradition. We spend days planning everything to be just right and go to great lengths to be surrounded with family and close friends. Most families no longer use the formal dining room on a regular basis but this is one time of the year that people pull out all the…
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This is Chili. We all love to feed her but when we are busy acting busy, she sometimes gets fed twice, possibly three times in a row. My son came up with this system to indicate when she was fed by placing a coin on B for Breakfast or D for Dinner. I protested at first,…
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I had a great conversation with my American Taxi driver on the way home with the kids. He is from Martinique and we talked about America vs other places. He had so many interesting observations about how we (Americans) work the fastest and hardest but get the least out of it like how we take…
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It has always been difficult for me to choose the best 10 or 15 dishes I’ve had for the year because meals are the sum of many moving parts. At each year’s end, I fill a desktop folder with food photos but can never whittle it down to less than several dozen. How can I pick 10 or 15…
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