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Okra, and a slow boil, and things that cannot be taught

My buddy Kevin reading just one of his many wonderful food poems. If you haven’t read his work, do yourself a favor and check out any of his books and/or anthologized work.

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Posted on April 2, 2025 in Uncategorized

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Fantasy Life Update: Moving In, Desk Edition

Posted on September 5, 2024 | Leave a comment
I know, knockout status.

I know, knockout status. Like the copy room sign in the background? I’m really living it up.

After your bed, there is but one piece of furniture with which you have a real relationship, and that is your desk. I spend a solid 9.5-12 hours a day at mine, and yet I always avoid really committing. This week, I added three major things to make my mark on my open-plan office workstation: Suki the fake taxidermied rhino, courtesy of my best friend, a not-that-cool-but-kinda-cool organizer, and lastly, gorgeous, perfect flowers from Roadside Blooms here in Charleston. Their model is really cool: green, sustainable flower arrangements that are based on what’s available locally in any given season. You just say, “I’d like small, medium, or large” and they bring it to you in their vintage British mail truck. I know. I know! But the best part is that they were a surprise, all the way from Afghanistan! Nothing quite like a no-reason-at-all pretty to make you feel like everything is going great.

 

How do you personalize your desk at work? Pictures? A candle? A terrarium?

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I don’t know what has happened in Mississippi in my absence, but this video gives some guidance. I remember playing a lot of volleybonk and going to parties at an old Boys and Girls Club on the outside of town. Times have changed, and now awesome sock puppets are en vogue within my circle of friends.

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Posted on September 5, 2024 in Uncategorized

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The Great Cookie Caper: Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookies

Posted on September 1, 2024 | 2 comments

As some of you know, I’m embarking on a cookie adventure for the next couple months. A lot of you have sent me your favorite recipes (though I still want more!), and this one was one of the first that floated in. My friend Clara is still in middle school, but she is one of the most gifted bakers I know. People from Raleigh to Jackson rave about her cakes and pies, so I was really excited when she shared this with me. I’ll check and see if she’s available for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and graduations, but we should probably ask her dad.

The caramel and chocolates are in hiding, but trust.

The caramel and chocolates are in hiding, but trust.

These cookies incorporate my favorite thing: salted caramel. I never, ever saw salted caramel anywhere before 5 or 10 years ago, and now they’re everywhere. I am in no way upset about this development. These cookies are only a little bit tricky, but you absolutely much chill them for the requisite amount of time or they’re not going to turn out. Consider yourself warned.

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The Freakin’ Weekend

Posted on July 5, 2024 | Leave a comment
Skipping away!

Skipping away!

Let’s talk about our plans for the long weekend. I’m going to go to Edisto with my girlfriends so we can gossip about people we knew in college and paint each other’s toenails (one of those things maybe won’t happen). We’re going to go see the baby turtles go to the sea, eat barbecue, and catch up on reading/lolling. What are y’all thinking of doing?

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Snacks on Snacks on Snacks: Jam Thumbprint Cookies

Posted on June 23, 2024 | 1 comment

I don’t know what my deal is, but I’ve been really craving sweets this weekend. We’re having people over in a little bit to watch the season finale of Mad Men, so I have an excuse to make dozens and dozens of cookies that I wouldn’t otherwise have made. It’s way too summery for hamantaschen, but I think we could make some jam thumbprints, right?

I only ate 6 while writing this.

I only ate 6 while writing this.

Right. After the jump, check out my five-ingredient summer remix cookies.

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Lazy Sunday

Posted on June 9, 2024 | Leave a comment

My babely friend Mel is visiting (a post on our kitchen adventures later!), so y’all can read while we’re out frolicking in the ocean.

  • We should just have believed Liberace, since that’s what he wanted.
  • Can you even imagine how unbearable each and every patron of this nightclub must be?
  • If you’re feeling anxious about the PRISM stuff, here’s a guide to the internet sans tapped companies (yay for WordPress!).
  • I no longer need this guide (hooray!), but I have some recently-graduated friends who may. Be productive! Don’t waste this time! Don’t ever say “funemployment” to me ever!
  • Well, that’s one way to get attention for your new creative venture.
  • America’s unregulated ghost tour market is something I grapple with nearly every day at work. I wish this were a joke.
  • A liberal at Fox News.
  • A roundup of anecdotes about summer jobs of the famouses.
  • The case for being allowed to age out of being cool, as made by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • Being polite is the death of art.

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