The meal is leftovers, the bellies are stuffed, dishes and pots are washed and put away. The giant table that contained all of us for our dinner has been disassembled. It is but a memory…until the weekend when we pull out all those leftovers for a 2nd...

My great aunt, Mary used to arrive for dinner during Thanksgiving or Christmas with the backseat of her car literally filled with pie. I smile when I think of it, a sight etched in memory, because it was always us kids that got to help her empty her...

That’s what my grandmother would often say when one of us was upset about something falling on the floor or hands being dirty or some such thing. Her answer was simply “don’t worry about it, you’ll eat a peck of dirt before you die”, this usually...

Nothing fancy here. Just about the fanciest thing (if you can call it that) about our cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving is origin of the cranberries. The cranberries used in our cranberry sauce came from The Vermont Cranberry Company in East Fairfield,...

  Photo credit: The Pantagraph   Magical Reindeer Gem necklaces $15 each. Sounds pretty neat? Proceeds go to the Miller Park Zoo in Illinois – sounds like a good benefit. The zoo anticipates that sale of necklaces and related ornaments might raise...