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Category: Memoir

Mama the Cook

Posted on August 1, 2018April 23, 2019 by Clay

Mama was not a very good cook. She was an inspirational schoolteacher, the kind to whom people sent tear-wrinkled letters of gratitude, years after they left her classroom. She pulled…

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Mississippi eatin’

Posted on November 26, 2017June 28, 2018 by Clay

When I moved to rural Mississippi from downtown Los Angeles, I knew I was in for environmental shifts beyond just the absence of…

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New Year’s Eve

Posted on January 2, 2017March 26, 2017 by Clay

Crowds of people are not my idea of a good time. I like my space and I don’t like noise. Crowds of drunk…

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A note about “Letters from Clay”

Posted on October 17, 2016March 21, 2017 by Clay

(I joke a lot but what I’m about to tell you is not a joke.) A comment came in to my blog today….

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Roadside discomfort

Posted on October 16, 2016March 20, 2017 by Clay

The worst roadside restroom I ever visited was in northwest Indiana. It was 1989 and a friend and I were on a late-night…

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Hillary’s pneumonia, imagined

Posted on September 12, 2016March 17, 2017 by Clay

H, to Aide: “I feel shitty. Cancel that thing in the morning and get me in to see Dr. Y. Better yet, have…

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Dinner with Daniel Boulud

Posted on August 22, 2016March 17, 2017 by Clay

Some years ago — not too many years but two or three eyeglass prescriptions ago — I walked into a restaurant in New…

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Movie kitchens

Posted on July 19, 2016March 25, 2017 by Clay

My friend Rob, whose sharp eye and opinion I respect, put something on Facebook the other day about the kitchens of someone called…

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Chance encounters (Bill Clinton edition)

Posted on July 2, 2016March 17, 2017 by Clay

In yesterday’s news was a story involving a meeting that took place this week between former president Bill Clinton and U.S. Attorney General…

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A friend from the Navy (Part 1)

Posted on June 6, 2016March 24, 2017 by Clay

(Caution: contains coarse language) The story has been in the works too long, partly because it’s important to me and I wanted to…

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