Category: Comedy
-
I love Billy Collins
Billy Collins is my favorite poet (aside from Jim Danger Coppoc whose poetry I love for totally different reasons). I am writing for NaNoWriMo, as I have mentioned and I was looking for a snippet of poetry that would pop into the head of my hero and help her put the whole mystery together. But…
-
Swiss don’t make Spaetzle
Last night I made spaetzle. This may be the one and only time I actually make it from scratch. I’m still traumatized. Spaetzle is a kind of an egg noodle pasta dish that is popular in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Hungary. It means “Little Sparrows” in old German. I have no idea why. It doesn’t…
-
Cap’n Bender’s
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away Mark and I were newlyweds. Part of the “new” in newlywed was our new life in Washington, DC. Mark had gotten his economist dream job and we had moved to an area that he had always loved, but where I had never been before. The…
Mindy Carlson 