Tag: recipes

How many times have I uttered the words “if only” during my lifetime. I had been shopping at Safeway last week for a 10-pound pork...

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to makeyour regular annual good resolutions. Next weekyou can begin paving hell with them as usual. —Mark...

Imagine being 5 years old and learning (from the other kids) it was possible, just possible…there was NO Santa Claus. This 5-year-old was devastated. In...

I lived with my aunt and uncle during my early years, who, to this day, I am not sure they believed in the existence...

I had been tweaking an apple cake recipe for several years and just couldn’t seem to get “it” quite right, until my last effort,...

I raised my little family in Watsonville on a lovely “piece of land” on Green Valley Road, oh, about 6 miles from town or...

My hubby Norm and I had been married for one year when he announced that it was time we spent Christmas in Chicago with...

It was many years ago…I believe it would have been in late September, when Sister Agnes Marie corralled me, telling me to put on...

Having been raised by an order of nuns from France, eating lentils was as commonplace as eating potatoes for me, both as a child...

“Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River,” … sang vocalist John Denver As a little girl from the “southside” of Aberdeen, Wash., almost...