People often make rash assumptions about me. For instance, people often assume that because I’m tall, I should play basketball. Then I fall in front of their face and they reconsider. But until they see me fall/drop something they believe me to have wasted years of potential talent. Talent I promise I do not have [...]
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Catch of the Day
This weekend Dan and I journeyed south to Morehead City on some wedding business. It was a great weekend, full of the unexpected and a lot of fun. My two brothers, Reid and Ryan, and my father and stepmother were there the whole weekend, and Dan’s parents joined us for Saturday. On [...]
Grilled Dolphin with Roasted Poblano Sauce
One of my favorite restaurants in the south is Hyman’s Seafood in Charleston, South Carolina. I love the town of Charleston, and don’t have the opportunity to go as often as I’d like. My favorite thing to order at Hyman’s is the fried dolphin fish (mahi mahi) with hush puppies and collard greens. With a [...]
Spicy Pecan-Crusted Dolphin Fish
When I was a kid, our family friend, Captain Fred Cates, used to take us fishing on his beautiful sports fishing boat. Capt’n Fred was actually my grandfather’s friend. The former mayor of Hillsborough, he is a bastion of hilarious stories about my parents and grandparents. He also spent all of my elementary and teen [...]


