For the last eight years, every Thanksgiving I have shared this extraordinary recipe. (If you're not interested in how I obtained it, scroll down now to the recipe. ) It's the perfect solution to left over Thanksgiving turkey. And just so you'll know, from time-to-time when Patty and I are plan
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11/29/2008
This large banner is not hanging from the gallery of an Episcopal Church. It's hanging on the front porch of one of Galveston's famous 19th Century Victorian homes, a private home that has survived many hurricanes. And it came through one more time as Hurricane Ike totally ravaged more than fi
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11/27/2008
Williamsburg, Virginia is one of the nation's most historic sites. But then I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. They say some four million tour the streetscapes of Colonial Williamsburg every year. It's where the buildings and actors take observers back to the founding of Amer
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11/26/2008
I'd like to discuss a delicate subject with you today. It's delicate because I'm going to try to build a case for challenging one of the few perpetual guilt trips we are placed on from almost the moment we speak our first word until we inhale our dying breath. Here it is: Giving donations to va
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11/24/2008
The auto manufacturers have the idea we should give them a bunch of billions of dollars to keep them solvent until they can reorganize their royally screwed up finances. Who's to say they can or will? I'd rather the US give the manufacturers X thousand dollars for every vehicle they sell to a U.
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11/24/2008
One of the primary contradictions of a democratic society with a free-market is that to survive, we can't allow most business monopolies. When one company gets the upper-hand, it likely destroys its segment of free enterprise. The United States did a pretty good job of balancing this, at least s
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11/23/2008
I thought you might find this bit of sociology interesting and worth pondering. At Thanksgiving in 2000 the book I had written comprised of historical stories about Galveston, Texas was published. It was a trade paperback -- that means a regular hard cover book-size paperback -- and it sold for
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11/21/2008
It was the hopes of Congress, Realtors, Mortgage Lenders and recent home borrowers that the program instituted by HUD on October 1 would rescue many of the 400,000 homeowners who are in trouble with their home loan lenders. Interestingly, though, almost two months later, very few have taken advan
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11/21/2008
My mother, Naomi Speakman Cherry, was a wonderful cook -- a gourmet cook before it was the rage. Born and raised in Louisiana, her recipes bore the influence of the French. And I'll be cooking several of her holiday recipes at Thanksgiving and Christmas. That's primarily because my family and
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11/20/2008
My nephew emailed the other day to tell me about an acquaintance who has not only learned that her sister has pilfered their mother's estate, but that the chances are she won't be able to afford the legal costs to get the probate court to do anything about it. Think about that. Here's a mother w
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11/20/2008
