During the long months that I am back in Arizona, I dream – yes, dream – about my mother in-law’s strawberry shortcake. It’s one part Frank’s bakery shortbread biscuit, one part Langley’s strawberries and one part homemade whipped cream. To D.I.E. for.
Holy dinner, this guy was enormous!!! I still can’t figure out how he made it into the trap. We figure he must have gone in backwards. He certainly enjoyed himself a few little fellas while hanging out in there. Weighing in at over 14 pounds his crusher claw was unreal and he was all business….
If you didn’t know, today was the longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer. I decided at the last minute to try and photograph the sunset from atop Cadillac Mountain. And so Sadie and I jumped in the truck and hugged the mountain road, only to arrive in time to watch the…
As we touched down late last night, I looked out the plane window and saw what I had been waiting for — home. While fog and darkness limited my view, I was more than thrilled to be landing. I had anxiously looked forward to seeing my special place in this crazy world below me. My…
“We’re not like other families, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s a good thing…” Father’s day is this Sunday. I’ll be home on the island spending it with my stepfather, Tommy. For the past few years, I’ve wanted to call Tommy ‘Dad’: I’d rather say ‘my folk’s house’ then, ‘my mom and step-father’. He’s…
