Thanks to Simone Wilson for her kind words in this week’s Memphis Flyer. She nailed it!
The closer it gets to leaving town, the sadder I get… I was tearing up at the post office the other day. Blame it on Elvis… hearing “Here Comes Santa Claus” made standing in that long line a real Memphis experience.
Though we’re hitting the road early tomorrow morning, there’s much discussion about where to have our last supper. Likely, it’s going to be Soul Fish Cafe… on my best-of list this year, which runs in Friday’s Memphis Playbook.
Here’s wishing everyone out there in cyberspace — except those nasty spammers — a very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Kwanza, Hannakah and Peace on Earth!!!
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December 21st, 2006 at 10:42 am
Merry Christmas to you and a safe, happy, healthy, and hearty New Year!!
December 21st, 2006 at 11:15 am
Wait! It happened so fast…I barely prepared myself emotionally for your departure! Have a safe trip and a wonderful holiday, Leslie…Peace to you and the family!
December 21st, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Leslie,
We love you and will miss you! I hope you and your family have a safe trip to Seattle! Bye for now until we see you again.
Kevin
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:41 am
I have never posted on here before but felt compelled to after seeing that you were leaving today. I thought we had a little more time to enjoy you. I live in AR but reading this blog (and the comments of your adoring readers) has given me such great tips for restaurants to try when I come to visit family in Memphis. You and your writing will be dearly missed.
I will send a prayer up to give you traveling grace as you make your trek home today.
Have a fabulous holiday and more importantly GOOD LUCK!
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:40 am
Dang, just left and already converted back.
her best of 2006 didn’t have any Q or any Fried Chicken! I admit the fried fish (and one of the better places btw) was to her credit.
I thought the foot washin and the full immersion baptize to southern life would stay with her.
Actually I miss her already! Leslie became cousin Leslie or our “cuz” to use a word from our southern language.
We have changed her. Now as an exiled southerner she will look for that Martha White self rising flour and corn meal and have friends bring it to her from the south. When she ordered, she now assumed fried, and will learn there are other strange cooking ways (baking and broiling) out there. SHe will look for the streak-o-lean pork seasoning in the veggies. WHen she orders BBQ out west she will be surprised that it might not be pork and there won.’t be a “pulled or chopped” request.
Cuz Leslie, I will be looking for your work in the Post-Intelligencer ( the Seattle one not the Paris TN one).
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:59 pm
God bless you and your family as you embark on your new adventure. We will all miss you.
December 24th, 2006 at 11:37 am
OK - you said I almost made you cry the other day, so I’m not going to get sentimental again, Leslie. It already sounds like you are having a fantastic time in NM, so we’ll really be happy to hear about the next ports of call. I have to echo what everybody else has said & reiterate that I’m sure you’re going to miss Memphis more than you realize. Santa brought me a gift card for Firebirds restaurant, which I understand is very good, so I’ll have to let you know what I think. All the best to you, John, & Claire, & I hope you find a fabulous house in the perfect neighborhood (hard to beat Midtown Memphis!) & your new job is everything you want it to be! I’m making a New Year’s resolution for 2007 (which I usually don’t do): ck. out the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
Be looking for my friend Gloria when you get there - she’s the one w/the red hair, the big smile, & the funky glasses.
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:47 pm
LK returning to the Northwest is best news that I’ve heard in years. Spokane hasn’t been the same without her, and now she’ll be just over the mountains instead of two time zones away. Sorry, Memphis, but your loss is our gain. Thanks for taking care of her, though. Spokane never appreciated her the way it should have. We’ll now see if Seattle can handle somebody who is so utterly real.
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