Tag: Ernest Hemingway

• The Elephant in the Room

  As my regular readers may know, I have always been a cat person although currently I am the catless owner of an eight-year-old Maltipoo named Puccini. In fact, my very first essay published on Cajun Girl in a Kilt was “License to Carry”, a tongue-in-cheek essay about Puccini’s reluctance to go up and down the…

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  March 13, 2016

  Essay

  cat, Cat in the Rain, Ernest Hemingway, Italy, Maltipoo, padrone

• Travel for Beginners

  I know almost nothing about soy sauce. I know I like to dip my sushi rolls into it and I know that the colored tops of the soy sauce bottles on the tables in Asian restaurants denote whether the soy sauce is regular (red) or low sodium (green). I know it is one of the…

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  February 7, 2016

  Essay

  A Moveable Feast, A Week in Winter, Africa, Asia, Asian, Bangladesh, Baton Rouge, Beryl Markham, British, Circling the Sun, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, Hadley Richardson, Ireland, Irish, Kenya, Kirstin Chen, Louisiana, Maeve Binchy, Memphis, Monroe, Nell Freudenberger, New Orleans, Paula McLain, pub, reading, Singapore, soy sauce, Soy Sauce for Beginners, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, The Newlyweds, The Paris Wife

• The White Hills of Rockville

  Author’s Note: Some of my more liberal-minded readers might not agree with my positions in this essay, and that’s okay. Read or don’t read, the choice is yours, these views are mine. In the words of General Douglas MacArthur: “Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to…

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  January 24, 2016

  Essay

  #blizzard2016, A Day’s Wait, Abortion, Catholic, Catholic school, Catholicism, Chris Coleman, Ernest Hemingway, Hadley Richardson, Hills Like White Elephants, John Steinbeck, Jonas, literature, March for Life, Pauline Pfeiffer, Pro-choice, Pro-life, Roe vs. Wade, teaching, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, Washington DC