Category: Life

All we need is a little patience. I am a good cook and a better baker. I can make puff pastry, cream puffs, eclairs, cannolis – you name it I’ve made it. Souffle? It’s a snap! Tiramisu? Of course! I’m not afraid to try to make anything. Except for...

I went to make funnel cakes last night and wanted to use the smaller cast iron pan I own. It had been hanging on it’s hook for a few months, and we had not used it for quite some time. However, when I turned the pan around, there was...

I do not have a linear way of thinking. My train of thought is more a hovercar of thought; it moves in all sorts of directions, and it steers like a fish. I have better luck somedays herding cats into straight lines than I do focusing on a task...

To some people, the only thing better than MORE is ALL. I collect cookbooks. It started simply at first, an innocent wish to have more than a Betty Crocker cookbook and also to stop borrowing cookbooks from the library and paying fines for returning them late. I don’t remember...

When I was younger and engaged to be married to my first husband, I made a lot of mistakes. I was truly living in what I like to term my “Barbie” bubble. The kind of thinking about marriage and life that results from years of watching sitcoms, reading romance...

What a difference a week can make. Last week my Dad was in the hospital. He had the flu, they put him in ICU 2, he was there for three days. They moved him out of ICU. They did a chest x-ray to see if he had pneumonia. I...

Another week, another post that didn’t get done until the evening. If you have issues with your parents, you may want to give this one a pass. Life can come at your pretty fast sometimes – I think that’s what Ferris Beuller said. In the last eighteen months, it...