Kelley Korbin's little writing blog
Apparently confession is good for the soul, so here goes. I cheated on my book club. A bit of history. My book club and I go back more than 15 years. Over that time members have come and gone, but the essentials have stayed the same. We meet 10 times a year, usually the third […]
To me, there’s not much shocking or surprising about the actions of Harvey Weinstein. Nor is it any surprise that his systematic sexual harassment was an open secret in Hollywood. We see this over and over with high-profile men in celebrity culture —there have been lots of American examples, but we’ve had our own Weinsteins […]
I am a sucker for food porn. My kitchen shelves are teeming with cookbooks. My precious homemade recipe book is stuffed with torn recipes from newspapers and magazines. I have a whole accordion folder – divided by categories – for recipes I plan to try. Then along comes Thanksgiving. The grocery store shelves and newspapers […]
At a time of year I always associate with new beginnings, this year I’m feeling the annual Labour Day transition more profoundly than ever. This is the Labour Day that my partner-in-adventure-and-all-things-domestic and I officially become empty nesters. I’m sure this would have been tough under any circumstance, but the fact that it’s come a […]
When I was little, my dad was the kind of father who knew everything. He answered my questions on any topic. (As this was well before Google and I was usually too lazy to check his accuracy with our set of 1973 World Book Encyclopedias we’ll never really know if he actually did have all the answers. […]