In 1975 my best friend Richard and I were seventeen, and had great plans for our Christmas vacation. Our college applications all mailed out, we’d been saving money for months, Greyhound was offering an $80.00 ticket to travel anywhere in the USA for 30 days, and we were headed to Mexico City! I can’t believe […]

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  • January 14, 2015 - 2:50 pm

    jamie@southmainmuse - It sounds like quite the adventure. When I was in college my parents let us take off on a cross country trip to California. I still can’t believe it because they were rather strict with the boundaries. Good lesson for us to let our children go a bit — they’ll end up with an adventure they will remember all their lives.ReplyCancel

    • January 14, 2015 - 9:14 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Jamie, yes, I had many such adventures and I’m still here. That being said I think I am way more cautious as a parent.ReplyCancel

  • January 14, 2015 - 6:16 pm

    Stacie - What a long ride! I’ve never been on a bus that long. Glad you finally got there!ReplyCancel

    • January 14, 2015 - 9:15 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Stacie, the trip home was only slightly less crazy than the trip,there. But yes we both recovered and went on to do much more traveling, together and apart.ReplyCancel

  • January 14, 2015 - 9:04 pm

    Cyn K - Ever since my best friend regaled me with the horrors of her cross-country trip via Greyhound, I’ve sworn that will ride the bus in this country.ReplyCancel

  • January 15, 2015 - 6:46 pm

    April - It never fails to amaze me how much technology has changed the way things work. From the bus scheduling to the calling collect.

    I’ve done a duet-trip from Florida to Georgia. 24 hours, if I recall correctly. Just a fraction of the…discomfort you endured. But it built character, right? 😉ReplyCancel

    • January 16, 2015 - 8:17 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - April,
      Yes, it’s almost hard to imagine a life before cell phones etc. Things have changed so much since 1975!ReplyCancel

  • January 15, 2015 - 7:52 pm

    Natalie - You got a good story out of it. 🙂 I think the unexpected detours are what make life interesting.ReplyCancel

    • January 16, 2015 - 8:16 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Natalie, so true! I have never regretted any traveling I’ve done, and always want to do more.ReplyCancel

  • August 3, 2017 - 5:00 am

    The Last Time I Saw Richard | Better After 50 - […] a flurry of emails the chain growing daily. It included old friends, people I’d barely known and Richard who’d been one of my closest friends through high school, and long beyond. I hadn’t seen or […]ReplyCancel

Right from the start I will state I don’t like runny eggs. Runny eggs, however are taking over the world, so I think I may need to learn to like them. Half the food pictures I see when I scroll through Instagram are dishes of all manner topped with runny eggs, some poached, some fried, […]

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  • January 12, 2015 - 6:46 am

    Kelly - I don’t like runny eggs. They look great in pictures, but for me, that’s where it ends. I like super hard boiled…like, egg salad hard boiled. I’m okay with that too. 🙂 Happy Monday!ReplyCancel

    • January 12, 2015 - 6:01 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Kelly, I am even particular about my egg salad- I grate rather than chop my eggs. I guess we all have out culinary quirks!ReplyCancel

  • January 12, 2015 - 3:59 pm

    Quirky Chrissy - I ADORE runny eggs. I have since I was a kid. The only way I’d eat scrambled eggs was if there were equal parts scrambled and cheese.

    But…I speak from childhood food aversion experience when I say, give them a try again.

    I wouldn’t eat ranch (anything with ranch on or in it) for about 20 years because of a bad food experience. Then one day I dipped wings in ranch and it was all over. I mean, I still don’t love ranch…but occasionally a good ranch is a nice change from blue cheese on the wings or from French onion dip with chips.ReplyCancel

    • January 12, 2015 - 5:58 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Chrissy, just for you I will be brave and give them another try, one day soon… 🙂ReplyCancel

  • January 12, 2015 - 4:37 pm

    Suheiry Feliciano - This made me laugh. I think runny eggs are disgusting. I like hard-boiled eggs, but they have to be cooked just right. If you cook them too long, they get rubbery, and that grosses me out too.ReplyCancel

    • January 12, 2015 - 5:58 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - I’m so happy to see there are people who will also admit to this! Thanks Suheiry. Nothing is worse than that telltale green ring on a hard-boiled egg!ReplyCancel

  • January 14, 2015 - 10:24 pm

    Alisa - My love of eggs has changed over the years. Until my husband introduced me to sunny-side up eggs, I was grossed out by eggs that weren’t cooked until they were dry. Now I love sunny-side up eggs. The thing that has not changed is my dislike of hardboiled eggs. I will not eat them whole, in egg salad, or deviled.ReplyCancel

    • January 15, 2015 - 6:49 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Alisa, people are pretty particular about eggs, that’s all I have to say. Any theories on my eggshell aversion?ReplyCancel

Despite my best efforts I have no recipe for you today. I had a great idea for a wonderful new soup, sure to impress and delight you, and despite my best efforts, it was a bit of a bust.  I used to go to a restaurant in Rhinebeck, New York called La Parmigiana which is […]

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  • January 8, 2015 - 8:26 am

    Quirky Chrissy - This makes me so sad! Here’s hoping you remember!ReplyCancel

    • January 8, 2015 - 8:52 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Right??? I will never remember, I need to hunt that woman down!ReplyCancel

There’s a fine line between being a bad-ass and an embarrassment, and I find myself falling on the wrong side of that line a little too often. My whole life I’ve been a bit of a know-it-all, and I don’t mean in a good way. Though it’s awful to embarrass yourself, embarrassing your child is […]

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  • January 6, 2015 - 10:35 am

    Linda Roy (elleroy was here) - Culinary bad-ass wins every time! Go you! You did the right thing. And now I want cheese. 😉ReplyCancel

    • January 6, 2015 - 10:40 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Linda, thanks! And I always want cheese!!ReplyCancel

  • January 6, 2015 - 11:22 am

    Quirky Chrissy - A woman after my own heart.

    I would have noticed and said something as well.

    As an aside: Coming from a girl who was regularly embarrassed by her very outspoken and strong-willed mother, I also think that it’s important you show your daughter that it’s more than okay to do that – it’s the only way to do it. If something is wrong, there is a way to rectify it without making a huge scene, but you should never sit quietly and ignore it. She will take that and learn from it, so that she never sits quietly out of embarrassment.ReplyCancel

    • January 6, 2015 - 11:50 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Thanks for that reminder Chrissy! I try to keep in mind that I am constantly teaching my daughter something (whether I mean to or not).ReplyCancel

  • January 6, 2015 - 5:43 pm

    Roshni - I think it’s awesome even though I empathize with your daughter about mom being a continuous potential embarrassment (as all we parents are!!)!ReplyCancel

    • January 7, 2015 - 7:32 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Thanks Roshni. I try to minimize the embarrassment I cause my daughter, but the thing is that often what embarrasses her is totally not what I expected. I constantly tell her I am not a mind reader, though as she gets older I may regret that 🙂ReplyCancel

  • January 7, 2015 - 10:38 am

    Prajakta - I love cheese and am more than happy to eat it daily. And honestly, your daughter was pretty awesome. Often I see kids behave very rudely, especially with their mothers to show their embarrassment.ReplyCancel

  • January 8, 2015 - 10:28 am

    Liz - I remember distinct moments of being embarrassed by my father most often when I find myself doing the exact same thing, embarrassing my children in the exact same way. It was so uncomfortable as a kid and so delicious as an adult. 😉ReplyCancel

    • January 8, 2015 - 11:09 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Liz, yes, it is a secret thrill most of the time!ReplyCancel

  • January 12, 2015 - 1:37 am

    Suheiry Feliciano - Awww this is a great story. I remember being embarrassed about EVERYTHING when I was a kid, so I feel for your daughter. Still, you are totally a culinary badass, and I don’t think what you did was embarrassing. And good on her for caring about someone else getting the wrong cheese and also not catching an attitude with you.ReplyCancel

Now that January is here, almost everyone we know is starting their annual diet. I cannot even count the number of diets I’ve started, some a complete and total failure almost immediately, some more manageable. Even thin people seem to think, worry and even obsess about their weight.  And so for many people new year= […]

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  • January 5, 2015 - 10:16 am

    Jill - Agree! Diets never work! Small incremental lifestyle changes are the key, as well as not beating yourself up if you ‘cheat’! There really should be no bad foods. Just things you eat more if and things you eat in moderation.ReplyCancel

    • January 5, 2015 - 10:34 am

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Jill, so true! The stats on successful diets are bleak, and leave us feeling like failures… not good!ReplyCancel

  • January 5, 2015 - 12:01 pm

    Quirky Chrissy - No real resolutions here. It’s all about the enjoyment of life! 🙂ReplyCancel

    • January 5, 2015 - 12:46 pm

      nrlowell@comcast.net - Damn right Chrissy!ReplyCancel

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