Use your noodles!

Use your noodles! I will be forever grateful that my parents, especially my dad, taught me how to think for myself.  If I asked for help solving a problem, Dad didn’t necessarily spout out the solution.  He often guided me along the path of figuring out the...

Leftover memories

On the eve of Thanksgiving Day, many refrigerators are bulging with items-in-waiting.  Pies are either baking in the oven or set out for cooling.  A turkey might be thawing in the fridge, or if someone is like me and forgot to take it out of the freezer soon enough,...

August is just peachy!

When searching for inspiration to help me write “Cooks’ Corner,” I often check out a list of National (Fill-in-the-Blank) Months. August is National Peach Month, so this week’s column is dedicated to that luscious fruit.  There is nothing like biting into a ripe,...

Gift Card Blues

It happened again.  My grief game of Chutes and Ladders found me in a decent position.  Lately, I had managed to avoid several chutes, even climbing a few ladders.  Oh, I landed on some small slides now and again, but I soon worked my way past them.   Then,...

A black-eyed New Year

As I prepared to write this column, there was a song lyric floating around in my head.  It is a line from a Christmas song, “Deck the Halls,” and it goes like this: “Fast away the old year passes…”  I have to ask the question, “Where did 2107 go?” I can ask all I...