Plain talk about food: Remembering Memorial Days and French apple cake
It would have been in May of 1947 when Sister Claire, my French-born teacher passed a copy of the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ to each of us in her classroom. “Memorize this, every word, jeunne femmes” (young ladies), she said in her lovely French accent, “and one day, hopefully, you will remember it and understand its true meaning.”
The Mountain Gardener: Like a ‘candy bar’ for your plants
I have to chuckle when I see someone admiring a basket of blooming fuchsias.
Talk about money: Occupy Washington, not Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are right to protest how the middle class is getting poorer while the rich get richer, but the location of their protests — in the world’s financial capital in New York — should be about 200 miles to the southwest, in Washington, D.C.
Felton Fire District faces concerns over parcel tax proposal
Felton Fire Protection District (FFPD) has been in the news of late due to the calamitous nature of its board and leadership, and the...
