My dad, Tony, and his older brothers Lewis and Bobby loved to tell stories of their childhood in Hephzibah, Georgia. The Hephzibah of the 1930s and 1940s was a sleepy little town, but it was more reminiscent of something William Faulkner might dream up than Mayberry. Hephzibah was filled with colorful characters, many of them with questionable intelligence and most of whom were “bad to drink.”
All my life I have had a love/hate relationship with beef. There are some ways to fix it that I love (a juicy hamburger) and some ways I hate (most pot roast). My mother loves beef. It goes back to when she was in college and was severely anemic. Beef made her feel a lot better. I am not wild about cooking beef, unless I can make it taste like French Onion soup, which I love, and which is traditionally ( I think) made with beef broth. This is last night's London Broil.
I’m going to be on a panel at SXSW this year talking about building your team as an artist. I’m excited about that.
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A veteran of more than a dozen Broadway shoes, including "Elf," "Crybaby," "Big," and "Contact" [no, not based on the Jodie Foster movie], Stacey has...
Although her name is a Hindi word meaning “daughter of a king,” there wasn’t always much money when she was growing up, but there was...
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Daily rants raves and regurgitation of my weird life as a writer/mom foodie and movie nut..
