Mama the Cook
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’
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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Dinner at Chasen’s
On December 23, 1989 Mama and I had dinner at Chasen’s in Beverly Hills. It doesn’t exist anymore but was quite the Hollywood…
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More memories of Mama
Mama’s been gone for six years now. It was her last minor act of cruelty that she managed to die just a few…
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Mama’s day
Mama died five Aprils ago. I still wonder a little if she arranged her demise so close to Mother’s Day just to spite…
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