Doughnuts for Chapel Hill
Months ago I convinced Marilyn Markel, the director of the cooking school at A Southern Season to host me for a demonstration class. Amy and I decided to celebrate our 25th at the same time so we turned it into a long weekend, sans kids. I surprised her by trading favors with a friend and he […]
Happy 25th Sweetheart
Although our anniversary is still a few weeks away, Amy and I are celebrating this weekend. We’re headed to Chapel Hill where I’ll teach a cooking class at Southern Season centered around the food in my novel, Doughnuts for Amy. I swapped favors with a very good friend of mine and he has loaned me […]
Five Seconds
January 16th. My birthday. I turned 33 years old eight hours earlier and I’m going to celebrate by winning a NORBA sanctioned mountain bike race at Manchester State Forest near Sumter, SC. Amy and I left the warm confines of our home at 6:00 am so she could watch me bang wheels with a bunch […]
Gentlemen, Start your Apologies!
A good marketing strategy can be compared to fishing. You can’t let the hook just sit there, you’ve got to keep it moving and ideally have more than one in the water. So that’s why I took my wife to a car race for her birthday. One of the Food Network’s cast-offs was Food Fantasy, […]
Tell me again why I didn’t join the Air Force?
I’m not sure why I never became a fighter pilot because when I was a kid that is all I dreamed of becoming. From the ceiling that my brother Tommy and I shared hung models of every fighter plane imaginable dating from World War 1. P-51D’s shared airspace with Fokker Triplanes and F- 101 Voodoo’s. […]
Tell me again why I didn’t join the Air Force?
I’m not sure why I never became a fighter pilot because when I was a kid that is all I dreamed of becoming. From the ceiling that my brother Tommy and I shared hung models of every fighter plane imaginable dating from World War 1. P-51D’s shared airspace with Fokker Triplanes and F- 101 Voodoo’s. […]
It’s Like Frosting a Cake, Right?
“It’s like spreading frosting on a cake then, right?” I heard myself thinking. I’m standing in the middle of I385 on a chilly, grey day as Mike Haynes, the operator of this enormous Guntert & Zimmerman S-850 describes how critical the mix of the concrete is to the finished product, which in this case is […]