We landed in the midst of a mild kerfuffle when we went to pick our littlest buddy up from daycare yesterday. A friend in stocking feet was refusing to put on his shoes. "Should I sing him the song?" asked our second littlest buddy, which confused me a little until he launched in. "Put your [...]
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It came from Pogue’s
My elegant grandmother made shopping an occasion. She loved to dress up and head downtown to browse the big department stores like McAlpin's or Pogue's, where she'd cap off a rigorous round of selecting, modeling and purchasing outfits, with a trip to the ice cream bridge, an architectural wonder suspended over the second floor of [...]
The extraordinary impact of an ordinary life
Like the well-tailored clothes she chose with charming regularity, my Grandma left a legacy of timeless elegance. Yesterday would have been her 100th birthday and my mother urged us all to celebrate with a generous slice of chocolate fudge cake, her signature dessert. She also made perfect peach pie, bourbon balls and chocolate chip cookies, [...]