Roadside discomfort

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

Bless your heart

People in many regions of the country have their distinctive dialects and colloquialisms. One man’s dinner is another’s supper. Y’all and youse are…

When asked what my last meal would be if I knew I would die soon, I generally name lamb, raspberries and pears. The…

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

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

When I mentioned to Calvin yesterday that I intended to do something for tonight’s dinner with some Cornish hens I knew were in…

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

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…

We all have our heroes, and we assign the term however it makes sense to us. Maybe our hero did something that we…

As soon as I was able to make sense of words I heard words or bits of dialogue in movies or on television…