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Secret Recipe: The Best Orange Rolls Ever
A little over a week ago, when the temperature was almost 60 degrees and it was hard to imagine Christmas was less than a month away, I spoke at a women’s brunch in northeast Iowa. Having learned the hard way that it’s best to eat lightly before speaking, I bypassed...
Still Alice, Still Dorothy
Monday afternoon, I went to see Mom. When I arrived at my brother’s house where she lives, she was wearing the same coral colored sweatshirt she’s worn almost every day since we got rid of the ugly gray cardigan she insisted on wearing all the time. She greeted me and...
Tracks & Tunnels
Even though snow is never my weather-of-choice, except on Christmas Eve when a maximum of 2 inches of snow can settle upon the landscape to create a picturesque scene for 24 hours only, the dusting of white stuff that greeted me Monday morning, put me in a...
Glory
The 1989 movie Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freedman and many other stand out actors, is a fantastic, unforgettable film. Meticulously researched and produced, viewers enter the Civil War era as the story of the Union Army’s first black...
Sunshine Addicts, Unite!
For weeks I’ve been in denial about the arrival of winter. Above average November temps helped me ignore my sunshine cravings as the days got shorter and shorter. My enablers, who meant well but have left me in a terrible fix, were the brave little violas in the...
Good News
Allen received wonderful news at the guest house last night. The counselor from the Trauma Recovery Institute called and said that based on the intake forms he completed, he is a candidate for their recovery program. Also, because of logistics and the fact that we are...