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Honey pecan pie for Π Day

For Pi Day this year, consider a pecan pie flavored with honey instead of corn syrup or molasses. You can never have enough pie. And you can never have enough pecan pie. Put it in a whole wheat crust and you can even pretend it’s healthy!

Mysterium Fidei: Mortem tuam annuntiamus, Domine

Latin in the Catholic Mass II: The Mysterium Fidei, or Mortem Tuam, is one of the shortest bits of Latin in a partly Latin Mass. It highlights some interesting features of Latin and how it translates to English.

Texas Independence Fried Chicken and Pecan Pie

Celebrate Texas’s Independence Day with sesame fried chicken and a very easy and very good no-bake pecan pie.

Refrigerator Revolution Revisited: 1947 Cold Cookery

The 1947 Norge Cold Cookery and Recipe Digest reflects not just increased access to electricity but also the end of a second world war.

Kolchak’s Big Sister at North Texas 2025

Kolchak and Friends will be back at the North Texas RPG Con in 2025 for an Ides of March that will have you asking dux femina facti? in one of the weirdest Kolchak adventures ever.

Italian road safety campaign social media backfire

In a perfect universe, defensive driving would be unnecessary. Too much on social media, any good idea for saving lives is denigrated because it helps people rather than laying blame.

The Cult of the Cult of Gygax™

It was never a secret to us back in the day that the staff at TSR played the game themselves, and that they played the game with custom rules and custom worlds.

Flashing Blades at North Texas, 2025

I’ll be running Flashing Blades again at North Texas this year, in a game called l’Entreprenante l’Entreprenante, pitting 1705 Naval officers against 23rd century Mirror Universe Imperial Officers.

My Year in Food: 2024

From Italy, to San Diego, to Michigan, and many points in between; and from 1876 up to 2024 with stops in the 1920s, this has been a great food year.

My Year in Books: 2024

This has been a wonderful year in books, especially for revisiting old classics and visiting some old classics for the first time.