If everyone loves Christmas cookies, why don’t we make little green leprechaun cookies for St. Patrick’s Day or turkey cookies for Thanksgiving, bunnies would be perfect for Easter? I guess they are just special because it is Christmas. I enjoyed making Christmas cookies with the kids when they were young, we made my […]
My daughter, Tricia, gave us a most unusual gift. On the first of December she arrived with a large box, an Advent wine collection . What fun, we get twenty-four days of wine tasting! The box has round punch out holes in the top indicating the 24 days until Christmas. Just poke out the perforated […]
Even at the risk of being pelted with Dasani bottles, I admit to being a skeptic about recycling. Oh, I do my part, depositing the junk mail in a basket and saving frozen pizza boxes, not the sticky take out kind, cheese and pepperoni being a no no in the recycle bin. But to be […]
There are few things more maddening than pulling into what appears to be a vacant parking spot only to discover some nincompoop abandoned their cart there. I ran across this short article on the Shopping Cart Theory the other day. It provides food for thought. The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether […]
I made my annual trip to find the perfect wall calendar for next year. Ours hangs on a handy hook in the pantry, perfect for a quick glance when we grab the coffee in the morning. I’m sure the younger generation is happy to use their smartphone calendar. But I love picking out a new […]
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, complaining about lying awake at night worrying about all the things I shouldn’t have said. The prompt response was ‘you must not get much sleep at all’. That was just plain mean, but since he was an old friend I assume it was meant […]
Election Day is just around the corner. How about some fun election facts, these are courtesy of Readers Digest and Google. Of course I had to add my two cents worth. Cartoonist Thomas Nash is credited with creating both the Republican and Democratic symbols, the elephant and the donkey, respectively, when he lampooned the political parties […]
Every morning I load up the bird feeder with assorted seeds for our feathered friends that share our backyard. Walking down the narrow path with the bird feeder and Daisy I spotted what looked like a four foot long snake. I’d like to claim I was calm, cool, and collected but you’d see right through […]
The way I see it, life is a numbers game, made up of some tens and lots of twos. There are some things that qualify as tens, birth and death qualify as tens along with a phone call from my kids. Luckily for us most of life is made up of things on a sliding […]
There are a lot of things dividing the country at this time, the continuing pandemic, civil unrest, and political turmoil. Life was simpler when all we had to worry about was whether Lucy was finally going to let Charlie Brown kick the football. This week we celebrate Charles Shultz and the Peanuts gang, celebrating their […]