It has been an interesting year since I retired from my job. Without the stress of a job, my husband told me it took an entire year after he retired before he found out who he really was again. I thought, “How hard can this be?” I will have plenty of free time, and I can do what I want when … Read more
It’s January and it’s cold. Sure, we have milder and colder Januaries. Some years we spend a good deal of time shoveling, and other years we play spectator to storms, getting just enough to ke… Read more
Whatever happened to inflation? When last seen, it vanished in the early 1980s, when we still had a Soviet Union and we had never heard of the internet. That inflation had been accompanied by … Read more
I recently took another look at a book first published in 2011 (and mentioned in a previous column three years ago) to see if it still might hold some insights into our ever-changing country t… Read more
Like most self-respecting home cooks with a reputation to uphold, I overdo during the holidays. Case in point: there was no need to lightly toast and slice into astonishingly uniform small cub… Read more
Pounding on your mailbox, perforating your orchard trees, tapping on the siding of your house, opening your forest trees for food and housing, living on the edge. Despite these apparent habits… Read more
I’m sitting here in my office this morning watching the birds at the feeders, the wild turkeys marching single file out of the woods line and the thermometer which is a surprising 45.7°. A wee… Read more
A while back, I wrote a light-hearted piece about mousetraps, their history, design, proper application in the home, effective baits, and the various mortuary options in the disposal of mouse … Read more
How Maw enjoyed Christmas! She often told us that she wanted her family to have a better Christmas than the ones she’d had when she was a girl. Read more
