I’ll Take the Spicey
I am a lover of spicey foods and chocolate sauce. The one wounds, the other heals. In fact, I’ve recommended my wife’s chocolate sauce, properly heated so you can just begin to smell the vanilla flavoring in it, as a medicinal remedy for your typical sore throat. I say a spoonful of that stuff doesRead More
Fire and Loose Tow Ropes
Part one It sounds and feels like the most natural thing in the world to call my favorite pair of sunglasses my Dearly Beloveds. But to fix a name to our old feed truck is a lot harder to do. …
Working a Cold Iron
Back in the day, a long time before I was born and an even longer time yet before I started messing with cattle, branding was done differently. I’ve read of how an entire summer was devoted to the weaning and…
The Hot Mess
I grin to myself in my empty house. We have plans tonight. “A pan of bars,” the host had said. Indulgently, I flit through recipes in my head and glow with leisure anticipation. I have all day to wash my…