Several months ago I wrote a blog about pressing the "send" button on my manuscript for "Children of the Stars". That seems like lifetimes ago. Almost nothing has captured my attention or focus but the work of finishing this book. I am almost there.The proofs will be back in a week or s…
It was 4:30 in the afternoon when the phone rang. It was Doris Koplin, Chairperson of the local planning committee and longtime friend. She got right to the point. “Do you have room for two more for dinner?” I hedged. Hmm...I’d have to re-set some tables, re-portion some food. She continued without missing a beat, “Julia loved your menu and wants to come to yo…
Recently, neighbors and colleagues in our ChapelHill community were facing both cancer treatment for one of its members and an unfathomable family loss. A mutual friend organized meals to be brought several times a week, dropping off at the bench at their front door. I brought some lemon ginger rice, a mixed grilled of chicken, lamb and shrimp and my all-purpose Asian Red Cabbage sla…
I am a cook. I hunt and gather. I read and listen. I stir and chop and re-form what I find. I nourish myself and hopefully, others.
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Coming July 2012