Have you ever noticed that at Thanksgiving, pie is, without doubt, the most populous of all food species? Between Great Aunt Minnie’s apple pie, Grandma’s pumpkin pie, Mom’s pumpkin pie, and Sister-in-Law Susie’s no-bake pie, there are already more slices of pie than guests at the dinner table. There’s just something about pie. Everyone wants to bring it, everyone [...]
As many of you are aware, the recent mid-term elections marked a turn-over of power in the House of Representatives. Republicans will soon yield a majority in a previously Democrat-controlled House. To reflect this development, as well as to celebrate the absence of mudslinging political advertisements for a whopping 4 days, it only seemed appropriate to make turnovers. Tee [...]
Pumpkins are such multi-purpose entities. Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned a giant pumpkin into a lavish carriage. Children annually carve pumpkins into Halloween jack-o-lanterns, which one can often observe rotting on porch steps across America around mid-November. As members of the gourd family, pumpkins can be fashioned into many an instrument. Alas, this same large mass that makes [...]