Your comments are contest-winning quality - always! Now I'm on a mission to find a "nut" that can be grated for fresh nutmeg. And you've had this thing for years...? Nutmeg is a *mild (Stacey

A clone of Scary Mary... we already have her "son," Bobi the Bad, who howls at the door each night wanting to go outside and persecute the little black stray we've been seeing, and so have our

The world as family - that makes sense! - especially for those whose DNA family are not there for us, but strangers, neighbors, co-workers, classmates, and authors seem more present in our lives than those

Bobi the Bad is a hobby.... or my penance ... LOL, yes, I need to be busy with a job that keeps me too active to think.

LOL - yes - black walnuts in cookies, cakes, salads, everything but the roast beef. Miles came back from Mexico last year making Croque Madame, an egg sandwich topped with a white sauce made with NUTMEG

Rise to the challenge... experiment with new recipes, new ingredients... well, there will be no coffee cakes in my world, none of the comfort foods of childhood, but maybe there will be better things.

Thanks @owasco! Her dad's recipe didn't include those additions. She never cooks with fresh garlic, never uses parsley. My spinster aunt went through every cookbook scratching the word NUTMEG out of every

"Gone for good" - that is such a provocative line. We know the finality of "for good" (at least here in the slang of the Midwest), but for the greater good, for the betterment of mankind,

LOL, I love the column of air rushing to slow the force of gravity and keeping this guy in the purloined Lexus aloft. If I take over, it might be a new and greater tech from ETs or a hidden human race

Oh, ouch, ouch, I may be the only person on earth who couldn't love the ending of Thelma and Louise, unelss they sprouted wings and skis and landed that convertible on a body of water and continued their

Thank you for your support and upvote, @ecency!

Love the name Mariela - our daughter's name is Mariel. :) I drink ginger tea every day, sometimes with turmeric, sometimes not. Yours is all from scratch. Beautiful! You even grow your own chamomile (I

He came on his own, without the doctor, without the knife of the C-section. What a trooper! Zara is a beautiful boy, blessed to have a loving father and mother.

Your dad is still alive? You are not alone in feeling as you do. His love is not unconditional, and he expects his wife and children to follow his blueprint for life. Too many of us know that m.o. I'm

My motivation to eat healthier is to avoid the inflammation (arthritis, vestibular migraine) that come with wheat and gluten in all its glorious forms (and even amaranth and quinoa), dairy and egg, even

One hallmark of a great writer is how many other writers s/he reads. And promotes. On Twitter, some Indie Authors fill their walls with nothing but links to their own books. The best writers have read

Too sad! Do we learn nothing from movies like The Lives of Others, about East Berlin, children turning against their parents to support the Police State... the fall of the Wall... and still the unwary

Wow, this one is dark! Those days electricity, gasoline and water were common goods are over. So is friendship and the confidence everything will be better one day. That day will never come. The boy....

Thank you for your support and upvote @ecency!

Yes! What she said. I'm guessing bulletproof vest, but how did he get the stranger's gun to shoot blanks... veddy mysterious! I would definitely read more about the exiled man in the cabin.