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Animals Who Own Us
April 1, 2020
While the cows, horses, pig, turkeys, mules, goat, ducks, chickens, and peacocks are from his Tennessee farm and country inn, the dog and cat episodes could hav happened in a Manhattan high rise studio. He has owned a lot of animals, but has never had to say, “I’m owned by a monkey.”
While the cows, horses, pig, turkeys, mules, goat, ducks, chickens, and peacocks are from his Tennessee farm and country inn, the dog and cat episodes could hav happened in a Manhattan high rise studio. He has owned a lot of animals, but has never had to say, “I’m owned by a monkey.”
Lists for Ainsley
March 29, 2020
Inspired by a list of favorite things by Nashville sportswriter, Fred Russell, I started making lists of my favorites: things I don’t do anymore, sweet things to do for your spouse, pet peeves, and scores of others. They range from sublime to ridiculous and will provoke you to think of what’s on your own lists. The book is not finished yet because I keep thinking of more lists to include!
Cortner Mill Cookbook
March 22, 2020
Our restaurant didn’t have secret recipes. If you liked what we served and wanted the recipe, it was yours for the asking. But if you want all 240 of the recipes in our cookbook, you will have to pay for them! We will throw in some history of our 1825 grist mill and stories about our recipes for free.
Miss Lizzie’s Cookbook
March 15, 2020
In the early 1900s my grandmother started writing down her recipes with a pencil in a blank page memorandum book. Her forty-nine recipes are the core of this recipe book along with stories about her cooking for a family of ten during the Great Depression. Aunts, uncles, and cousins have added their recipes and memories of eating from Miss Lizzie’s kitchen.
Monday Morning Rose
March 15, 2020
I sent a rose to Claudia after our first date and continued for more than twenty-five years. Each was delivered to her with a personal note of love from me. Sixty-four of them were selected for this book from more than a thousand she saved. We didn’t include the X-rated ones.
Burgoo: It’s a Kentucky Thing
March 15, 2020
The mention of burgoo in Tennessee always requires an explanation to the uninitiated. My New Orleanian wife makes it short with “It’s a Kentucky Thing. From the frontier days at Fort Boonsboro to Churchill Downs before the Derby Burgoo has always been a community thing. It’s not a soup, gumbo, or chowder; more like a stew. Contributions from the community of frontier rabbits and squirrels have been replaced with chicken, beef, and lamb.
Work In Progress
My Daddy Said
March 15, 2020
I found myself saying, “As my daddy would say…,” and decided to make a list of all his sayings that had become part of me. I had enough to fill a book by the time I finished my list, so I bought a blank page book and wrote his sayings with a description of how I first remembered him using them and what they had come to mean to me. I presented the handwritten book to him as a Father’s Day gift and have left blank pages in this one for you to list your father’s sayings.
40 Weeks with Pop
March 15, 2020
The forty weeks of a pregnancy goes pretty fast, unless you’re the mother. As a grandfather, I spent each of the weeks introducing this unborn child to me, the world, food, music, politics, religion, history, news of the day, her ancestors, and even the crazy relatives. I kept my advice to a minimum, but couldn’t resist a few recommendations and warnings.
Work In Progress
Work In Progress
Principles of Church Finance
March 15, 2020
Where does a church’s money come from and where does it go? How does a congregation decide how often to pass the plate, what to do with special offerings, who and how many should handle the money? Are all gifts accepted regardless of their designations or restrictions? Who can spend money for the church? These decisions can be made before they become problems by having policies and procedures to guide a church’s financial actions.
A Place Called Home
March 15, 2020
With his mother dying in 1900 when he was barely three, Ollie grew up living in someone else’s home. Even as a young single man he lived as a tenant worker with another family. In 1920 he married and moved into a one room log house that he could call home. By the time the depression came there were three children and three more would be added before it was over, but with a place called home they would thrive.
Work In Progress
Work In Progress
The Cow
March 15, 2020
To be such a simple thing, the cow has and continues to shape how we live. She goes way beyond meat and milk for food. She provides us clothes, shoes, hats, medicine, transportation, and power. She’s in our religion, music, poetry, art, language, and even advertising. From earliest civilization she has played a key role in shaping our cultures.