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  • About Me

    I was a foodie before there was the word. I was a wino before it was okay to be one. Now I’ve decide to share with ya’ll (I’m not even from the south)my insightful, yet totally random musings about the… Continue reading

  • A Year of Musing: January/February

    This year I’m going to take a stab at reinvigorating my blog and perhaps more aptly my desire to blog by musing every two months in 2025! If my math is right, that’ll be six posts filled with the three… Continue reading

    A Year of Musing: January/February
  • The One about a Head of Cabbage, Garlic Bulb and Three Scallions

    If you’ve read a couple of my blog posts and given the site title, it’s probably pretty obvious that food is a big part of my life. I’ve preached for years now that there’s so much more to food than… Continue reading

  • Charleston Two Ways

    Charleston Two Ways Charleston Two Ways — Read on jbdieter.com/2022/04/21/charleston-two-ways/ Continue reading

  • Charleston Two Ways

    Practically all that know me or have read this blog know my daughter and I share a birthday and for the last 15 years or so we’ve taken a trip to celebrate, just the two of us. This year with… Continue reading

  • Food as Therapy, Therapy Through Food

    And I don’t mean in a bad way! “Self-esteem can be high or low and in patients with cancer it is important to maintain self-esteem that is closer to the high end rather than the low. Patients with lower self-esteem… Continue reading

  • The Power of One

    I’ve been writing a lot lately, just not on this blog spot. I’m conflicted. My intent all along, encouraged, maybe even pushed by my late husband, was to write fluff, mindless humor and yes, sappy mush at times revolving totally… Continue reading

  • 50 Musings + 1

    The Lemon Pepper Trout at Cracker Barrel is pretty good. Get the Country Platter rather then the Fancy Fixins’. No one needs three sides.Edit: Just got curbside delivery. The Trout is just that good! Some veggies and fruits in my… Continue reading

  • He was Nuttier than a Fruitcake

    I’ve always hated fruitcake. I never could understand why anyone would think Fruitcake was an appropriate gift to give or worst yet serve on your holiday table where there should be much more desirable sweets. My most vivid memory had… Continue reading

  • The Story of Hodge Podge Lodge and the Patchwork Garden

    My favorite Billy Joel song is the less popular “You’re my Home”. Life as an Army brat played right into the lyrics as I moved around a lot when I was young so I never really had a place I… Continue reading