Icy Drives

I opened the door and walked out onto the porch. I took a deep breath of the new, freezing air. It wasn’t an unexpected cold front, I knew it was coming, so I prepared. I was ready. I stacked plenty of food and firewood. Deer meat and a half cord of live oak just a…

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Foggy weather.

A mattress, leaning towards the road, becomes heavy and damp. A mattress set aside in the fog, too long, gets too heavy to move. I wait until it’s foggy to throw out my old mattress. Yesterday the fog rolled by so I pulled my couch to the road. Later, I leaned my old mattress over…

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Review of Kitchen Confidential

Review of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain My 13-year-old son has become interested in reality TV shows focused on cooking. Hell’s Kitchen with Gordon Ramsay, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Top Chef, Is it Cake? and the like. He learned about Anthony Bourdain and asked if he could read his book, Kitchen Confidential….

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