Can we talk about Advent? I have no idea what your faith is like, what your religion is, how you feel about the general universe, etc. So all I can do is offer up my feelings about some of these topics from time to time, and today I feel like I need to talk about…
Category: holidays
I was thinking last night, as we stood on my parents’ back porch with friends and watched the sky change colors from the fireworks we couldn’t see because trees were in the way (we had apparently missed the show), about how our Fourth of July celebrations always seem memorable. There was the Fourth of July…
I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful holiday full of light and joy and family and laughter.
This is what my Fourth of July looked like. My dad spent hours smoking chicken and ribs in a process that involved dry rub (which included, of all things, powdered lemonade), apple juice, and some kind of raspberry-honey glaze that resulted in meat so tender and sweet that it hardly resembled its bland counterparts that are…