deserted

The Clash's lyrics say it best: "Should I stay or should I go now?/ If I go, there will be trouble/ And if I stay it will be double"

Your weekly breakdown of the most dramatic season ever.

Your weekly breakdown of the most dramatic season ever.

A short photographic look at the run-down and abandoned houses around the Charleston area with little notes of fondness from a Philadelphia native.

Here's what Julia Child said to me at a food and wine festival (circa late 1980s) about how to go about becoming a food writer, and a peek at the famed French kitchens of Le Cordon Bleu

Bees that send me to cursing at church cookouts, horror stories starring our pet hamsters, and those darn green lizards—my unfortunate run-ins with the animal kingdom

Sometimes the Muse needs a refresher course—an Outward Bound to sharpen creative survival skills, a high ropes course for writers/artists who need a little endorphin spike....