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The Best Shrimp and Grits Recipe Ever
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The Best Shrimp and Grits Recipe Ever

This isn’t hyperbole, it’s fact. Chef Dan Vargo of Seagar’s Prime Steaks and Seafood inside the Hilton Sandestin Resort in sunny FLA is the mastermind behind the greatest, richest, most decadent shrimp and grits recipe I have ever tasted, and you will ever taste. Last month, despite never having made […]

How To Spend 24 Hours in Nashville
Travel

How To Spend 24 Hours in Nashville

Trust me, I’ve racked my brain for weeks to find a suitable pun or sly reference to the 100 blistered miles we hiked through sheep shit six months prior to our road trip from his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia to Music City, Nashville Tennessee. But I’ve got nothing. I have […]

The Best Worst Time For A Mancation
Travel

The Best Worst Time For A Mancation

Kids CDs still arrive at my door, a couple each week. It’s a decidedly slower pace than in my kindie writing heyday but still a significant number when you consider I haven’t properly reviewed an album in years. Right now, there’s a new one sitting atop of a stack of […]

The Mighty Pen: Carnival Cruise Ships
The Mighty Pen / Travel

The Mighty Pen: Carnival Cruise Ships

There were several sweet pens in my starting rotation that had me excited to push publish on the idea of The Mighty Pen last week. The Westin pen from Memphis was one of those, and it was with that pen that I scribbled down this crazy new endeavor. Another is […]

Doing the Right Thing Is Complicated at 2:30 AM in a Las Vegas Hotel
Parenting Blog

Doing the Right Thing Is Complicated at 2:30 AM in a Las Vegas Hotel

It was closing in on 2:30 AM and the farewell party that never did materialize was coming to its unremarkable conclusion. I walked out of the palatial 2-story spa villa with her and chose to use the short distance between suite and elevator as a hurried opportunity to say goodbye […]

Cruise Port Review: A DIY Day of Adventure in Bonaire
Travel

Cruise Port Review: A DIY Day of Adventure in Bonaire

If you’re anything like me, you crave at least a modicum of solitude while traveling, a temporary reprieve from the masses and their selfie sticks. When we took the Carnival Sunshine cruise to the southern Caribbean last fall we knew ahead of time we’d require one of the three ports […]

Eating For Pleasure
Parenting Blog / Travel

Eating For Pleasure

A day after we’d shared, at Bacaro in Liverpool, what objectively was the finest meal my family had ever, and I think it’s not unreasonable to say, the finest we may ever enjoy together, my wife turned to the girls and I as we bid adieu to the home of […]

The Road to Vegas
Big Guy Car Guy / Travel

The Road to Vegas

​There’s the chillaxed glamour of SoCal, the harshness of the California desert, curious life existing in pockets of somewheres that dot the landscape in the beige and brown valleys further east still, and finally the promise of an illuminated high-octane Las Vegas.  Making the 4 hour drive to Sin City […]

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