Month: November 2010
-
The Engagement Party
Cubans, Leo tells me, are prone to exaggeration. So when Leo’s parents, Lucy and Leo, started planning our engagement party, I knew they weren’t going to toss together a few hors d’oeuvres and call it a party. This was going to be big. They spent a week preparing food for an army. Leo and I…
-
A Dark Horse
The day before Election Day, a write-in candidate was added to the list — the list of possible venues, that is. Someone mentioned Raleigh’s Fred Fletcher Park to me and spoke highly of it. So on Election Day Tuesday, I drove over to check it out. The grounds were lovely, and there were two houses…