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The Best Peach Pie Recipe Ever
Peach season is a terrible thing to waste. To avoid that tragedy, I devoted part of last weekend to making 2 fresh peach pies using a recipe that's been in our family for over 50 years. The Man of Steel and I will be celebrating peach season with a pie every week or...
Top Ten Things to Dislike About Getting Older
I recently celebrated a birthday. Not one of those momentous ones with a zero at the end. But getting close. Getting very, very close. Close enough to get me thinking about what's to dislike and like about getting older. This week's list hits the dislikes. But you're...
Home Again Pee-Soaked and Happy
Home. I'm finally home after several weeks of travel. All to see family. All of it good. But I'm glad to be home and in one place again, with time to think and reflect and process the experiences. And to do laundry. Because our very precocious and gifted almost...
If My Name Was Alexander on this Fantastic Friday
Rereading this post about a series of no good, very bad days in July of 2008 made me smile. It made me think of how my mother used to say, "This too will pass," when I got riled out about nothing much. I hope it makes you smile, too. If my name was Alexander,...
Non-Dairy Shrimp Scampi
Well, I jumped straight from the family camp frying pan into the helping with the 3-monty-old grandbaby fire. Which means that while the Gravel Road kitchen remains closed, this grammy is flexing her cooking muscles on a daily basis. Especially today which is the...
Top 10 Reasons This Post Almost Didn’t Get Written
I'm spending the week with my daughter, son-in-law and their 3-month-old baby. You know. Helping out so Daddy and Mommy can get some things done. Like sleeping, showering, and going to the bathroom while I take care of the adorable grandson. Who is also quite...