One of my little brother’s favorite childhood books was Richard Scarry’s The Adventures of Lowly Worm, a book about an optimistic, one-footed, underpant (not pants)-wearing worm in a Tyrolean hat.
I’ve been waiting just short of a month to publish this post.
Poetic Eggs
by Ezra Pound
I am a grave poetic hen
That lays poetic eggs
And to enhance my temperament
A little quiet begs.
We make the yolk philosophy,
True beauty the albumen.
It rained on Thursday night.
I’m delighted to announce that leading South African food magazine, Food & Home Entertaining, has selected me as their Blogger of the Month for the November issue, which hits the shelves today.
My last few years in the United States, especially after the seismic financial downturn in 2008, were fraught with survival anxiety.
