text: Lightly coat your aluminum foil with spray oil. Place your rack of ribs on the foil. Rub with olive oil. Shake on a generous portion of garlic salt and a small amount of Tony Chacheres on the ribs. Coat liberally with barbecue sauce. Wrap loosely. Place on the rack in a roasting pan. Poke the bottom of the foil with a fork so the juice can drip out into the roasting pan.
  Cooking times are the same for the smoker, but I don’t bother with the foil on the ribs. Others like to wrap the ribs in foil for the last hour or so.
  Cooking is a gift you can give someone even when you have nothing else to offer. Thinking of it as a gift you are giving, rather than as a chore, can make it easier to enjoy.
  When I was a child, my mom and dad both were college graduates with full time jobs. My mom told me, “Don’t expect to get married to a girl who knows how to cook. You better learn now how to make anything you think you’ll want to eat as an adult”.
  She taught my brother and I how to make her homemade pasta sauce, King Ranch casserole, and all of the family cookie and cake recipes.
  We have the same philosophy with our two teenage boys. They can fry fish and grill meat, but they can also bake cookies or cupcakes.
  I encourage all children to learn to cook a variety of dishes and in a number of styles so they can feed themselves, and their families, for a lifetime.
  
  This article includes a nice review of “Me and Jasper, Down by the Meth Shack,” my story that appears in this month’s Apex Magazine. The story features the 2 main characters from ‪Adventures in Terror‬: Mostly the 1980s… sort of, anyway.
  
  So I’ve been thinking a lot about my sexuality lately – specifically, the bi part of it. (Personally, I blame Janelle Monáe, at least in part – I mean, have you seen the “Make Me Feel” video? Hnnngh. *heart eyes*)
  See, I’m bisexual but heteroromantic. I’m in a monogamous relationship with a man. I’ve only ever dated men. I only want to date men. I don’t have romantic feelings for folks who are not men. That does not, however, hold true for my sexual feelings.*
  *Note: I know there’s been a lot of discussion in LGBTQIA circles about whether or not the term “bisexual” enforces the gender binary/is transphobic/should be replaced with pansexual/etc, and I have feelings on that – but that’s not what this post is about. In short, bisexual is the label that I feel best reflects my sexuality, but trans and nonbinary folks are not excluded from my sexual attractions.