My once short fuse couldn’t be more protracted. I’m pissed. I had, at one time, such reassuring, immeasurably, stick to your ribs, ride or die ‘friends’. And then like Usain Bolt, gone. Ghost. Catfish. Bounce.…
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The best piece of advice I ever heard was at Hub 51 in Chicago O’hare airport. I was sipping a pre-flight spritzer and I over heard two passerby’s: (one man to another), the first one…
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When you go to Costco, I assume you go hungry. One of my favorite past times is going to bulk grocers, (alone) stocking up on bushels of wine, blocks of cheese and other essentials –…
View PostWhen you go to Costco, I assume you go hungry. One of my favorite past times is going to bulk grocers, (alone) stocking up on bushels of wine, blocks of cheese and other essentials –…
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I remember the moment my husband was least attracted to me. It was 8am. I was hovering over the sink, eating cold octopus leftovers. As the bulb-y, valve-y tentacles curled around the outside of my…
View PostI remember the moment my husband was least attracted to me. It was 8am. I was hovering over the sink, eating cold octopus leftovers. As the bulb-y, valve-y tentacles curled around the outside of my…
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A bomb dropped. The world stopped. A pragmatic, dynamic, dramatic, cataclysmic, galvanic paradigm shift. I peed on a stick. Everything seemed eerily quiet for 3 minutes – which, in case you’re wondering is more…
View PostA bomb dropped. The world stopped. A pragmatic, dynamic, dramatic, cataclysmic, galvanic paradigm shift. I peed on a stick. Everything seemed eerily quiet for 3 minutes – which, in case you’re wondering is more…
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The scariest moments in life are those when your toddler is nearing sleep in the car. I can’t tell you the kind of crazed ‘momness’ that comes out a person fearing for their life (I.E.…
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Welcome to Open Plate Anthropology. I’m Alexa, creator of this site based on a serious disease progression - my unrelenting obsession with food and travel. It’s lust actually. Food lust.
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