CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
MY HUSBAND’S PUMPKIN PIE SAGA
I might as well tell it like it is, like my husband Monte tells people: I don’t tend to prepare foods I dislike—like lima beans and pumpkin pie.
Monte really likes pumpkin pie. I do not. So in defense, in 1985 he began making pumpkin pie.
We were living in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in the Emmanuel United Methodist Church parsonage where Monte had his first appointment with the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. Being a pastor was his second career—he’d spent nineteen years as a physics professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania.
As he dabbled increasingly successfully at making pumpkin pies, he had a brainstorm: why not (more…)
My Husband’s Pumpkin Pie Saga
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CAROLYN’S COMPOSITIONS
MY HUSBAND’S PUMPKIN PIE SAGA
I might as well tell it like it is, like my husband Monte tells people: I don’t tend to prepare foods I dislike—like lima beans and pumpkin pie.
Monte really likes pumpkin pie. I do not. So in defense, in 1985 he began making pumpkin pie.
We were living in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in the Emmanuel United Methodist Church parsonage where Monte had his first appointment with the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. Being a pastor was his second career—he’d spent nineteen years as a physics professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Slippery Rock University in western Pennsylvania.
As he dabbled increasingly successfully at making pumpkin pies, he had a brainstorm: why not (more…)