I live in a mountain community where they really do have a local homemade moonshine competition every year. Life in the mountains often includes making moonshine, camping in the forest on a cold autumns night and drinking said moonshine around a roaring camp fire with new found friends. I have never entered the moon …
I turned thirty-two a few weeks ago. What I really wanted for my birthday was a pair of brand new Steve Madden leather boots from Nordstrom’s. What my parents got me was a brand new baby brother! I have two brothers. Sean is twenty-seven and happily married to his nineteen-year-old wife Echo. (A …
I can clearly remember the day my Grandma told me I was stupid. It was a glorious fall day in the mountains. The leaves on the oak trees in our neighborhood were just starting to change colors from green to red to burnt orange. Yes it was that time of year when friends and family start to …
If I make a breakfast surprise with peppers, eggs, cheese and coconut oil, that’s healthy, right? Um, yeah, sure. I tried just breading the peppers and frying them in the coconut oil the first time and they pretty much fell apart in the oil so I gave up and did this casserole style instead. …
I grew up in a magical place. It was a land where reindeer grazed, well maybe not wild but in pens with hay and piles of pine needles for their beds. There was a candy store that had every kind of candy you could ever imagine, home made ginger bread and jaw breakers that would …