Category: Family
Closing Out Our Summer of Chicken and Rice
Cooking chicken and rice together this summer gave my son and me a little bit of structure, a shared goal, a creative playground that led to exploration and learning, time to tell stories and get caught up on each other’s lives, and some damn fine meals.
Cooking Together: Our Summer of Chicken and Rice Adventures
Creating a meal together is a wonderful, collaborative and fulfilling experience that transcends the food and is woven into the fabric of relationship memories.
The Glover Gardens Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Recipe – Finally!
A time-tested and family-approved Chicken and Sausage Gumbo recipe with a step-by-step how-to guide.
A Family Cooking Class is the Final Test of the Glover Gardens Gumbo Recipe
A family cooking class was a GREAT opportunity to finalize the Glover Gardens gumbo recipe. And, what a great Gumbo Team my second cousins made… the Owens Gumbo Bros.
Joy! A Full Meal Care Package During the Kitchen Remodel
Homemade food, lovingly prepared, delivers far more than just taste and sustenance. It carries with it the intent of the cook, the connection between the cook and the eaters, the history of the recipes and legacy of how they’ve been enjoyed by others in the past, the impact it has in the moment it is enjoyed, and the promise of a story, like this one.
And Boom! Just like that, GK#1 is 6 months old!
Glover Gardens was bestowed the gift of a grandchild earlier this year. We’re calling him GK#1 here in the blog, perhaps to be followed by GK#2, GK#3, etc.
Just Connect, Just Love, Just Accept, Just Listen
Sometimes, people die because they feel “less than”; they die because they think they’re alone. They think they’re the only ones crying in the night, because they’re crying alone and don’t feel safe enough to talk about it. We. Have. To Talk. About. It.
Oh, Baby! (News, We’ve Got News!)
Oh, Baby! We are over the Goodnight Moon with joy about the upcoming addition of Glover Gardens Grandkid #1.
100 Years, 1 Month and 1 Day in this World, and Now Dancing with the Daffodils
A remembrance and a haiku for the intrepid little lady we lost, Ruth Violet Hiatt Holt.
suicide regrets: i missed the nuances of your decline
A poem dedicated to my brother, a victim of suicide, who suffered in silence. Call the suicide prevention hotline at 800-273-8255.
Graduation Day 2020
Graduation 2020. Anyone who has ever been proud of their kid knows how I feel, that telltale lump in the throat and feeling that your heart might burst into a thousand pieces of joy-light that shoot out into the universe as sparkles of optimism for the future, theirs and the world’s.
The Next Step in Our Musical Millennial’s Journey (Some Good News in a Crazy Time)
Graduate studies in Studio Jazz Writing (composition), along with a paid teaching assistance-ship and a Fellowship at the Henry Mancini Institute are on the docket.
Cooking with Kids
Cooking and eating are communal activities, and shared memories form very easily when food is involved.
Empty Stockings Full of Love
Each year, memories fly out of these treasures like dust motes in the light and gently come to rest on me.
You Left Us Too Soon: Open Letter to Steven Thomas Harvell on His Birthday
I remember my brother now more with joy at what was than sadness about what will never be.