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Cucumber-Onion Salad Encore
Thanks to our weekly CSA share, the vegetable bin is overflowing with cucumbers. So cucumber-onion salad is gracing our table almost daily. Because today is my birthday and I'm celebrating by not experimenting with a new recipe, I'm rerunning this one that was first...
Top Ten Reasons I Don’t Mind Turning 60
Tomorrow's my 60th birthday, and I'm looking forward to it. Really I am, and for these 10 good reasons. 10. Ordering off the 55+ menu at IHOP will be easier. Five years ago, doing so made me feel like an imposter. Now I feel like I've earned it. 9. The AARP has...
No Sweat for This Fantastic Friday
This Fantastic Friday post looks back at a favorite camp memory...four generations of family enjoying a magical evening on a houseboat. Though that was our one and only houseboat adventure, my camp job is still photographing the week's events while other people sweat...
Family Camp’s Brown Sugar Snaps
Galavanting from here to there and back again doesn't leave much time for cooking. So today, because of present galavanting at Shadow Valley Family Camp, this recipe comes from the camp cookbook. A dairy-free fix would be easy with Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks...
Top Ten Differences Between Latvia, Istanbul, and Idaho
Thanks to 2016 summer travels I have set a globe-trotting personal record which quite possibly will stand for the rest of my life. In the past 2 weeks I have sojourned in Latvia for a special needs family camp, in Istanbul during a 24 hour lay over, and in Idaho for...
Do Not Hinder Them
And they were bringing children to Him…but the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. And He took them in His arms and...