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The Chili Bee and Round Top, Texas – A Little Tale of Community, Chili and Small-Town Magic
Headed out to the Round Top Chili Cookoff with friends today, I’m inspired to reblog this post from last year. It’s a tale of a chili cook-off fundraiser in a tiny Texas town, two friends, five gallons of spilled chili, dozens of kind people and…
2017 in Glover Gardens: Looking Back to Look Ahead
It seems like yesterday that I was creating this post, Happy New Year! and looking ahead to 2017, and now here we are again, at the brink of yet another new year. I look forward to sharing and connecting with you all in 2018 via the…
Our Next-Gen Couple (Now Married!) and Their Glover Gardens Aliases
The newlyweds in the Glover Gardens family chose their aliases for the blog after making a wonderful quiche they knew I would post about.
Mourning the Loss of My Father and Muse
Glover Gardens mourns the loss of patriarch and muse Frank Harvell and shares his obituary.
It’s the Little Things: A Big Red Hibiscus, a Jar Full of Daisies and Fairy Lights on the Front Porch
The Grill-Meister and I celebrate our 9th anniversary tomorrow; Glover Gardens was “born” on the summer solstice in 2008. I was just looking at pictures from that wonderful weekend of wedding events and saw a photo of the simple daisies that were the decorations at…
Sister Poem
Reposting a sister poem for my not-sister sister. “Me so pale and you so brown, our real colors – our hearts – match completely.”
What’s In a Name? Seeking Your Input
Quick Poll: Does the Glover Gardens Cookbook need a new name? All ye who have encouraged me, post-likers and blog followers and casual lurkers and friends, I’d love to get your input.
Emile Zola’s “Living Out Loud” and My Blog’s Second Anniversary
My looking-at-the-world lens is sharper: realizing the gift of being in the moment through the act of sharing in the blog.
The Chili Bee and Round Top, Texas – A Little Tale of Community, Chili and Small-Town Magic
A tale of a chili cook-off fundraiser in a tiny Texas town, two friends, five gallons of spilled chili, dozens of kind people and a chance meeting with the governor.
A Little (More) Music for a Sunday Evening
For your Sunday evening listening pleasure, here’s my son’s first album, The Madness Method. All tunes are his original jazz compositions.
The Bee Poem, by Steven Harvell, Age 5
A small child’s poem about bees, published in a national magazine.
Aspiring Young Cook: Your Vote Can Help
This little boy just stole my heart with his recipe and his sincerity
I Have a Dream: Unconditional Love Will Have the Final Word
My dream is that one day, Martin Luther King’s visions of the future will be our current reality, and “unconditional love will have the final word”.
Venturing Forward Into Travel Blogging
Is it travel blogging or travelogue-ing? Either way, I’m going to start blogging about travel, when I can. Travel and food are symbiotic. So many of my favorite recipes have had their start from a wonderful meal I experienced on a trip. Here’s my new…
How Far is Heaven? Remembering Kim-n-Steve
This little memoir is dedicated to everyone who loved my brother Steve, and has the same bigger-but-now-broken heart because of his presence in your life.
Hello world!
The first post in the Glover Gardens Cookbook blog, which was later updated to simply be Glover Gardens.
