Jane Austen, Fanny, Emma, Elizabeth Bennet, and Me

Posted by on Jan 28, 2013 in dish | 0 comments Today marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice. Originally titled First Impressions, it was the first manuscript Jane Austen wrote, but not the first to be published; the first edition title page reads “by the author of Sense and Sensibility.” When I was in college, my fabulous advisor, the inimitable Dr. Jim Skinner, was the departmental expert in all...
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I’ll Make Me a World

Posted by on Jan 24, 2013 in dish | 0 comments One of my father’s favorite books is James Weldon Johnson’s poetry collection God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. The whole collection is gorgeous, a tour-de-force of imagery, theology, and culture. Johnson is better known for “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” adopted by the NAACP as the “Negro National Anthem,” but Daddy’s favorite and...
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Cast Iron Chronicles: Rescue

Posted by on Jan 5, 2013 in dish | 0 comments Despite growing up in a very Southern household, I never developed an affinity for cast iron cookware. (Don’t revoke my Southern card just yet.) My mother, like many women who married in the ’60s, received a full set of Revere Ware, so most of my childhood kitchen memories involve copper-bottomed steel rather than iron. My grandmothers used iron in the usual ways–to fry chicken...
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Posted by on Jan 3, 2013 in pix | 0 comments Obviously, the curly hair is hereditary.
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Posted by on Jan 3, 2013 in pix | 0 comments Carolina in My Mind – view from the deck at Daddy’s
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