Just a note of Thank You for You while I take a semi-silence break over here to enjoy time with my family — and miss the family who is far away. For some wonderful holiday inspiration, please check out the Tiki Tiki’s posts this week about food, family, and tradition. We got some great writers [...]

There were countless Saturday mid-mornings when I would open my bedroom door and up my nose would waft the smell of chicharrones, my younger brother’s snack-of-choice. It just wasn’t the aroma I needed before noon, but my brother was addicted. I thought of him first when I accepted the free bags of chicharinas and cinammon [...]

My apologizies to email subscribers of the Boonie Blog. You are getting links to old posts and I have no idea how to fix it. It seems Feedburner gets un poco loco when you transfer a feed from one site to another and regurgitates the past. I have found several complaints in their help forum, [...]

Never did I dream I would spend so much time worrying about the color of fonts, but oh yes, I do. Yesterday was spent writing and formatting our latest newsletter — the one launching the funny new T-shirts — and writing a press release to send to members of my former tribe: Reporters. I looked [...]

The communal kitchenette in my Southern Illinois college dorm was down the hallway and very public. I learned quickly to keep my black bean habit to myself as the girls would poke their heads in, crinkle their pert noses and ask me things like whether I was cooking bugs, what country I was from, and [...]