The Great Awakening and The Cult of Brunch

“For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become.” -Seth Adam Smith

The neighborhood restaurant of choice was the prosaically named Smith’s, just down the street from our house.

On occasions in my childhood, my family and just about everyone else’s would go to brunch late on Sunday mornings after church. Well, except for our neighbor’s, the Rothstein’s. They didn’t go to church, for obvious reasons, but they still went …