I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
Prop Master: A Look at the November 2016 California Ballot Propositions
In between writing a second Hallmark Xmas movie with a lot of very earnest dialogue about the meaning of the holiday and a Lifetime movie with lots of single white female drama, I decided to take some time and write up my thoughts on the propositions as I do every...
Southern Fried Road Trips: Days 7-11
Friday certainly started dramatically. With Hermine having come ashore as a category 1 hurricane causing a lot of damage and the projected path taking it almost directly over the top of Savannah, the city was in a little bit of freakout mode. Everything shut down -...
$50 for 50 by 50 #50: Charity Navigator
I'm turning 50 this year and instead of whining about it, I'm trying to do something positive by donating $50 to 50 different charities before I'm 50 years old. I found a lot of the charities I donated do on CharityNavigator.org, a group that tracks charities and...
$50 for 50 by 50 #49: Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
I'm turning 50 this year and instead of whining about it, I'm trying to do something positive by donating $50 to 50 different charities before I'm 50 years old. Since I am turning 50 I figured that I would give a little bit of assistance to the community that I am...
Southern Fried Road Trips: Days 5-6
One one eye obsessively on The Weather Channel app, I checked out of the hotel on Wednesday morning with a revised plan for the day. Originally I was going to do several offbeat museums in and around Atlanta and Georgia including the CDC Museum, the Waffle House...
$50 for 50 by 50 #48: The Clinton Foundation
I'm turning 50 this year and instead of whining about it, I'm trying to do something positive by donating $50 to 50 different charities before I'm 50 years old. There's a lot to be annoyed about with this year's Presidential election, but little of it is as patently...
Southern Fried Road Trips Days 4 and 5
We'll get to the weather forecast in a bit, but first let's talk about days 4 and 5. I started Tuesday morning the way all good mornings should start, with donuts. The place is called Sublime Donuts, located near the Georgia Tech campus. It has quite a reputation for...
$50 for 50 by 50 #47: Lowndes County Interpretive Center
I'm turning 50 this year and instead of whining about it, I'm trying to do something positive by donating $50 to 50 different charities before I'm 50 years old. Ten years ago on the first Plucky Survivors road trip, Mary and I, along with Plucky Passenger Jessica,...
50th Birthday Southern Fried Road Trips: Days 1-3
Georgia is a state of contradictions. On the one hand you have confederate flags flying from the backs of pickup trucks with NRA and Trump bumper stickers and on the other hand you have deep fried BBQ pork. You can see why I'm conflicted. I got here Friday afternoon...
$50 for 50 by 50 #46: Atlanta History Center
I'm turning 50 this year and instead of whining about it, I'm trying to do something positive by donating $50 to 50 different charities before I'm 50 years old. I'm winding down the 50x50x50 project with a trip for my birthday to Atlanta and Savannah. Today, I went to...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.