This week is for all of those people who like the recipes I include. These are tried and true recipes that will work for anyone who tries them. I always include all ingredients and a clue as how to use them. I was hungry for lemon poppyseed bread. When I was shopping, I bought a mix to make ...

It never occurred to me that a COVID update in June would be a reasonable column topic. I mean, aren’t we all pretty sick of this subject? I was one of the unfortunates bit by COVID in early December. After five days in the hospital and luckily side-stepping the ventilator, I headed home ...

When you think about summer what do you recall? I remember my friends in the neighborhood. We all played together – boys and girls, young and old. We did not have many toys we used. Often it was Kick-the-Can. Someone got a can out of their garbage, washed it and we used it instead of a ...

Instead of the great southwest, Thelma and Louise recently headed for New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Well, not really. But my friend, Ann, and I joked about the similarity of the two of us heading off on a do-as-we-please odyssey in mid-May. Thelma (Ann) was planning to visit family in ...

The centerpiece of many of our summertime gardens is the hydrangea. These wonderful shrubs with their elegant flowers and their old-fashioned charm are often the main event of the garden. The hydrangea is low maintenance, comfortable in almost any kind of soil and produces large and colorful ...

What’s optional and what’s not? I’m not thinking about the purchase of a new car. I’m talking living life. We may choose to decline some of the “bells and whistles” the salesperson offers as we’re negotiating the deal for a new car. But are there aspects of living life in this ...