Loud music and uncomfortable chairs are two of the ways — two among many? — that Jack-in-the-Box, Taco Bell and others of their ilk optimize flow-through. Ride ’em in, ride ’em out. Starbucks, though … Starbucks used to be different. A huge corporation, yes. Cookie cutter interiors, yes. Baristas happy-jacked to a fare thee well, […]
Walking the Lake Conestee leg of the Swamp Rabbit Trail this week, I saw the biggest, strangest caterpillar I’d ever seen. Five inches long and as thick as my thumb. Bright colors in nature sometimes mean poison, so I didn’t touch. Instead, I scooped it up in a large leaf and brought it home to […]
‘Tis said there’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip and so it has been with “Bratwurst.” Come the September issue of fête, however, my much misunderstood wiener shall rise triumphant. A month late, an actor short and several degrees of separation removed from its storyboard, but … what was it Calvin Coolidge […]
