Tag: Dorothy

• One Chord

  One chord. That’s all it takes. One chord and I instantly know this song and the artist. It’s the sound of that one chord that caused me to have a reoccurring nightmare for weeks on end in 1974 where I would hear that chord and then faint, waking up hours later after having missed an…

  michardillo

  August 30, 2015

  Essay

  8 track tape, Baton Rouge, Bennie and the Jets, Billy Joel, Candle in the Wind, Dorothy, Elton John, Emerald City, Europe, Fork Union Military Academy, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Harvest, Levon, Louisiana, LSU, Madman Across the Water, Neil Young, New Orleans, Princess Diana, SLU, The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, Tiny Dancer

• Comfort Food, or a Meal for Comfort?

  I was born and raised in southeast Louisiana. I didn’t go far for college, only 100 miles, and after graduation I stayed in my college town until I moved to the Washington, DC, area in early 1988. Thus, for over thirty years, I ate, drank, and lived the life of a true member of “GRITS”,…

  michardillo

  August 2, 2015

  Essay

  Bethesda, brownies, chicken, chocolate, comfort food, DC, Dorothy, Fire King Tulip Mixing Bowl, GRITS, Gumbo, Hurricane Katrina, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, potato salad, sausage, southern traditions, Toto, Washington