Don’t be ashamed if you didn’t learn about this dark aspect of veterans’ history in school.

I am proud to say I learned about it from Captain America comics.

Learn more about the specific history of Blue Tickets and how the LGBTQ community was excluded from the G.I. Bill here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_di...

It is a secret family recipe, these molasses cookies. You see the word for the recipe are on the bottle of molasses. But the secret ingredient is my mommy made me cookies.

She will bake me a batch of molasses cookies when I visit for the holidays.

That is a lie.

I get one batch for home and second batch for the plane trip home.

I am the most important person on the plane, unwrapping golden perfection from a Tupperware vessel.

Fall colors, rom-com ready, happy people in the streets, the town is ready to make you feel good about a street hotdog.

Maybe none of this matters but the menu is a first impression.

Maybe words don’t really matter but tell me that next time you want to evacuate people instead of a building.

I seriously doubt I’ll ever order a Jack Daniel’s off of a bourbon menus, eh maybe someday I will.

I do however enjoy and order Tennessee whiskey often.

Cream de cassis is foul, sour, and pretends “purple” is a flavor.

Crème de cassis has hundreds of years of history and is beautiful.