by Minerva Rising Contributor | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
1. My very first memory is a Christmas memory. I was two and three-quarters, in the words of a 1967 me. My father, a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, was in Vietnam. My mother was at St. Luke’s Hospital, giving birth to her third child and first son. Teenage boy...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Nov 21, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
“Don’t sweat the small stuff,” they say, followed quickly by, “It’s all small stuff.” My list below may be small stuff, but it’s the stuff that makes my cork rise, the stuff of ahhhhh, the stuff that for a moment makes all the other nonsense melt away. An...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Nov 14, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
First sip of coffee in the morning; going to bed knowing I can drink another cup of coffee tomorrow. Saying, “Look at the sunset” to my son and watching him turn his head. Popeye’s fried chicken for dinner (from a busy location, of course, with particularly crispy...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Nov 7, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
My family is from diets. The lips, the jaws, the tongue of diets. My entire childhood was passed through the stomach of listening to my family go from one diet to the next. It was searching for The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Holy Grail or Indiana Jones and the lost...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
So many hungers in me. A gorge rimmed red with teeth howls from in my bowels. Ready to suck in and mash, tear limb from limb, the frailest offering, a bonbon. Clamp down with the weight and forgivelessness of … life. Chew and chew and chew and spew out the bits...
by Minerva Rising Contributor | Oct 24, 2014 | Blog, The Keeping Room
If you noticed the Halloween candy for sale in August, you know it has been the “holiday season” for some time. But now it is really the holiday season. All of the winter spices and root vegetables, not to mention desserts, will bring back memories. Use these scents...
