The big rocks
In the late ‘90s, I was an editor for a division of Time Inc. headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. How I ended up there is a very long story, but here’s what you need to know: We published lots of magazines, including Southern Living, Cooking Light, and Weight Watchers. And because so many of those magazines published recipes, we had our own test kitchens or TKs.
Behind closed doors
We spent Thanksgiving 2002 with my parents. My son Ned was two and had recently started sleeping in a twin bed. I was pregnant and napping…
You must remember this
I did not grow up in a family that took regular vacations. Maybe that’s why the few vacations we did take loom so large in our family lore. In 1974 and 1975, we drove three hours from Fort Leavenworth, KS, to Militar…
