Like most couples, as newlyweds Mr. Burt and I couldn’t afford all-new furniture to fill the new home we were starting together. We did scrape together enough money in wedding gifts to purchase an essential mattress, bedroom suite, and dinette, but our living room was fitted out with hand-me-downs from my parents, who conveniently bought [...]
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Good Deal!
In these tough economic times, everyone’s looking to save money where they can. One of the areas I try to cut expenses is grocery shopping, but that gets more difficult to do when rising transportation costs drive food prices up, too. I already shop at Wal Mart and buy generics, despite my loathing of Wal [...]
Chicken: The Other Purple Meat
Purple is the color of royalty. Does turning your chicken purple make your meal Chicken a la King?
Last night I reached new heights in culinary capers. No dinners were ruined, for once, but I did manage to dye our chicken purple. Deep, vivid purple. Like a bruise. Actually, by the time I’d finished cooking the [...]
A Veritable Smorgasbord; or, Why America’s So Fat
If you’re like me, you can’t think of a fair — be it a county fair or the state fair — without thinking of that catchy little tune from the 1973 animated version of Charlotte’s Web:
A fair is a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord
After the crowds have ceased
Each night when the lights go out
It can be [...]
Mythbusting
For those of you who may not have heard, I’m writing a new novel. It’s a romantic comedy set at my alma mater, Baylor University, and a fictional Methodist church in Waco — not, mind you, a fictionalized version of the Branch Davidian compound (although I’ll grant that would make for some fascinating reading, if [...]
