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I’ll Eat To That

Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.

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Mardi Gras Day 3: Part 1 – The Friendship Oak

I'm breaking the post about Day 3 into two parts because it would be too long otherwise and you might suffer from emotional whiplash.  Part 1 is a ruminative look back at a dear friendship while part 2 is about BBQ and boobs.  If you're more interested in one or the...

Mardi Gras Day 2: Ava Gardner Was a Wise Woman

We begin today with a quote from legendary screen siren Ava Gardner.  She was quite a character and enjoyed carousing almost as much as she enjoyed men.  I read this - spoken affectionately about her friend Esther Williams - while having dinner in New Orleans and it...

Mardi Gras Day 1: The Things People Do For Beads

I'm not sure what made me decide Mardi Gras was a good idea.  Perhaps it was the free hotel and free airplane ticket from Harrah's.  Well, free is probably not entirely accurate since they give me stuff like this because of how much money I waste in their casinos....

Southern Fried Road Trip Day 9: Aiigh! Zombies!!

I really didn't want to leave Savannah this morning.  I was very cranky about the whole idea of it.  But I have decided that I will, at some point, make this place (at least part-time) home and so that goal firmly entrenched, I was able to point the car west.  But...

Southern Fried Road Trip Day 8: BACON FEST!!!

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, today was the second annual Savannah Bacon Fest and for the second time I was here to experience it.  I am truly blessed. Before we get there, though, a couple of random things... First, last night there was a drag show at the bar I...

Southern Fried Road Trip Day 6: I Heart Savannah

There really is something magical about this place.  Look at this picture, just a slice of Savannah, and tell me how you could not want to be here... I left Charleston this morning and headed south along Highway 17, which winds its way through the marshy wooded lands...

Southern Fried Road Trip Day 5: Dog Days

I was kind of lazy today.  As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I am old and tired and old some more so I just couldn't face walking a billion miles in the Charleston heat and humidity to explore all the things I wanted to explore.  So I blew off a visit to the...

Southern Fried Road Trip Days 2-3: Anybody Got an Ark?

Last night in Atlanta I ventured out for dinner at a place I had heard about that was supposed to have the best fried chicken in the city.  Challenge Accepted! It's called Odd Bird, and it's kind of a pop-up concept in a popular breakfast spot called the West Egg on...

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.