My Family Skipped My “Pointless” Award—Then Watched It Live From a Restaurant TV

the James Beard email arrived, I had no script for what to do with it. And when my family dismissed it as pointless and chose dinner instead, I had no script for that either—except the one I’d been rehearsing my whole life, the one where I swallowed the hurt and smiled and kept moving.

What I didn’t know was that the universe had a sense of irony so continue reading …