Friends
Posted on January 30, 2016 by bob in EdNote
Yesterday I accompanied a dear friend to the hospital for a routine outpatient test. Nothing serious, thankfully, but her light anesthesia required a warm body in the waiting room, a driver to take her home, and someone intelligent enough to comprehend the doctor’s parting instructions (two outa three ain’t bad). In the hour we spent […]
Radio Recipes from Prime’s Editor
Posted on December 20, 2015 by bob in EdNote
Here are family recipes I was privileged to present on Troy Public Radio in 2015.
Three Generations of Christmas Spirit
Posted on December 1, 2015 by bob in EdNote
My mother always wrote her Christmas list on the back of an opened piece of mail…an old church bulletin, an unsolicited sales notice, an out-of-date invitation. Any envelope delivered by the postman – or its contents – was fair game. A pre-schooler during most of the 1950s, I distinctly remember Mama sitting down at the […]
Thanksgiving: More Than the Food
Posted on November 3, 2015 by bob in EdNote
Thanksgiving was my mother-in-law’s self-declared favorite holiday. For years I never understood why. How could a holiday focused on a single meal and requiring so much pre-and-post event legwork be anyone’s #1 day of the year? It was a feast, to be sure. Every imaginable seasonal delicacy appeared on the Corley’s Thanksgiving table (more than […]
Recipes of Love
Posted on October 4, 2015 by bob in EdNote
I’ve never met a cookbook I didn’t like. From the Times Picayune’s Cajun recipes, to Ina Garten’s homestyle and party volumes, to random works extolling glorious church picnics and delectable foreign cuisines, a good cookbook stirs my imagination. Not unlike an interesting story, it’s fun to see the various ingredients interact to create an exciting […]
Advice to Myself
Posted on August 31, 2015 by bob in EdNote
An old friend recently sent me an unexpected package in the mail. A lovely new journal, she said it was a memory book to write about my adventures, thoughts, and ideas encountered during retirement. My friend and I share a passion for journals, especially beautiful ones. We both began keeping one during our early twenties. […]
Where did summer go?
Posted on July 31, 2015 by bob in EdNote
What happened to summer? Except for the heat, it barely seems like a season anymore. Blink, and June and July are suddenly gone. “Back-to-school” ads fill our mail box, newspapers, the internet and the airwaves. While my adult self regrets the loss of a season, the seven-year-old me would have been spitting mad at the […]
Retirement Sundays & Radio Cooking
Posted on July 2, 2015 by bob in EdNote
I had lunch last week with two sweet friends, both approaching retirement and an end to their formal careers. Employees of a K-12 school they love, one is a chief administrator, the other the liaison between graduates and their alma mater. It was a wonderful, upbeat conversation, as my friends anticipated their happy, albeit significant […]
Editor’s Note: Bucket List, Radio Cooking
Posted on June 2, 2015 by bob in EdNote
“What’s on your bucket list?” It was a simple question, but one I wasn’t prepared to answer, when a dear friend posed it to me a few months back. “I don’t have a concrete list of important life goals I’d like to achieve, if that’s what you mean,” I said. “Of course I have some […]
