Tag: April 2013
Let's Do Brunch
Silver Service Salad Bar with Cucumber-Dill Dressing Here’s a pretty, fancy way to serve up a flavorful first course that’s easy prep for the hostess. 1...
Happy Trails
With trim white fences, sweeping oak trees and a handsome red barn, a horse stable skirts the western edge of Mobile. Although the sun still hovers...
Ask McGehee: What is the history of the median on Spring Hill Avenue?
There has been a median on Spring Hill Avenue since at least 1860 when Col. Lorenzo Madison Wilson incorporated the Mobile and Spring Hill Railroad. Wilson, who...
The Fiery Debate
I’ve seen fire at work. One morning, I drove past a pitcher plant bog, a tangle of grasses and forbs. By sunset, it was scorched...
Line Drives and Lipstick
Growing up in Prichard in the 1930s and ’40s, Delores Brumfield wasn’t like the other girls. Instead of making paper dolls and hosting tea parties, the...
The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy
The Happy Olive
For years, as the principal of Fairhope K-1 Center, Vickie Bailey devoted her time and energy to improving the young minds of her community; now she is...
Swamp Writer: The Landing
Pie owns the landing where I launch my boat. Her office is an old abandoned nightclub on the riverbank. From here, she collects $5 for every parked...
Portrait of a Lady
Entering Stevi Gaston’s backyard studio for the first time, I spot a lone floral still life peeking out from amongst a dozen or so other recent paintings....
Literary Charm
To read one of Margaret Cunningham’s three novels is to be carried away on a light and entertaining romp that suggests nothing so much as the plot of...
The Rebecca Diaries
Certain songs have a way of making a girl want to dance in a field of daisies and then sit for a spell, picking apart the flower while...
