Andrea Jarrell is an essayist with a fairly newfound flair for holiday meal prepping. Connect with her on Twitter @andreajarrell. My place in the preparation of the Thanksgiving meal has always been that of scullery maid, table setter, or dishwasher. My mother’s little sidekick, I wholeheartedly embraced these roles, being far more interested in how …
Would you call asking people to throw pies in your face, getting your first tattoo, cutting your hair off, and packing your bags for a faraway continent a midlife crisis? If so, I’m having one. I turned 52 in April. On my birthday I ate escargot for the first time. A few weeks later, I …
“Costumes!” screams the sign at the corner of the strip mall as I pass by. “Glad I’m done with that,” my mind screams back. I immediately feel guilty. My daughter, our oldest, is now away at college. Her younger brother, a high school sophomore, is more interested in taking his girlfriend to the homecoming dance …
