The sauce of life

Life would be bland without those things that bring us joy.  My family always saw pets as a blessing, and we had plenty of them.  Not all at once, mind you, but the years of my childhood were filled with various types of creatures.   Life would be bland without...

The green of Spring

What is the color we all wish to see this time of year?  Tired of all the drab browns of winter, we eagerly await the days when we look out our windows and behold – green! It is exciting to see the earth put forth shoots that herald spring.  Lawns that lay dormant...

Books, books, and more books!

I love books.  Maybe a little too much.  I could not even begin to say how many hours of my life have been spent reading.  Sometimes it has been for inspiration, sometimes for education or instruction, but the majority of it has been reading for pleasure.  Some books...

Sift your way into March

Many of my readers have commented about how much they enjoy stories about my grandchildren.  When I first started writing Cooks’ Corner, I only had one granddaughter; now I have three, plus four grandsons.  Maggie stories permeated my earliest columns.  Then Vivian,...

Cheerfully Cherry!

February is special for me, as my birthday just happens to fall during this short month.  My parents were very excited when my mother conceived.  They had been married for almost five years and wondered if they would ever have children.  Doctors had informed my dad...