by Darcy Wiley | Jan 10, 2015 | Buttons & Thread, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea
This holiday season, we were singing the “Twelve Days of Sickness” instead of the “Twelve Days of Christmas.” What started in mid-December with puke buckets and snot rags continued all season long and made us wonder if Christmas would happen...
by Darcy Wiley | Sep 28, 2013 | Buttons & Thread, Sweet Tea, Uncategorized
Three weeks ago, I felt a pack of vermin parachute into my sinuses and start a street fight. I knew the icy/hot running through my veins the first week of September had shot down my immune system and left me there for the taking. I walked around in a cloud for a few...
by Darcy Wiley | Feb 25, 2013 | Relish, Take Heart Series
We pull our chopsticks from their wax paper wrappers, snap them apart and graze them against one another, like twigs starting a fire or iron sharpening iron, to smooth out the splinters while our food steams and cooks in the kitchen. I turn the English and pinying...
by Darcy Wiley | Jan 23, 2012 | Pocket Change, Relish
We pull our chopsticks from their wax paper wrappers, snap them apart and graze them against one another, like twigs starting a fire or iron sharpening iron, to smooth out the splinters while our food steams and cooks in the kitchen. I turn the English and pinying...