Susan Browne's Blog

• To the Rescue

  October 8, 2009

  • My father told me he always loved to drink, ever since he tasted champagne when he was eight years old, a small glass of it that his father gave him on Christmas.  When he was eleven, my father got drunk for the first time.  He found wine bottles stored in a neighbor's garage.  His friends took a few sips, but my father drank a bottle.  He wandered around the neighborhood and came home in a ...
  • Continue Reading » 12 Comments

• The Good Farewell

  September 24, 2009

  • I've said many farewells.  By the time I was twenty-eight, I'd said good-bye to two husbands.  Then I lived alone until I was forty-one, when I met Kenneth.  I lived with him for nine years before we married.  I didn't want to rush into anything.  A part of me didn't believe I would stay.  But the years passed, and we are still together.  It never stops astonishing me, our first hello that ...
  • Continue Reading » 6 Comments

• Food and Love

  September 12, 2009

  • My husband Kenneth and I recently celebrated our sixteenth anniversary.  We flew to Seattle and spent four days exploring the city and doing what we do so well: eating great food. Kenneth started cooking when he was four years old, following his grandmother around the kitchen.  He never uses the word "chef."  He's the real thing, a cook.A few Sundays ago, we had friends over for a ...
  • Continue Reading » 6 Comments