Tag: Lemon

  • Chicken-hearted September

    Just a warning – before reading this column, be aware that it has some fowl language. The word “chicken” is often associated with cowardice.  It has caused many a person to act in ways they would not ordinarily behave.  After all, who wants to be called a chicken?  The dread of being associated with poultry…

  • With Mother’s Day in Mind

    This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day – that time of year when we celebrate special women in our lives.  Not all of them are a biological parent.  I could name several ladies that served as mother-figures to me during various seasons of my existence.  I owe each one a huge amount of gratitude.  I have…

  • The saucy month of March

    I do not know why March was chosen as National Sauce Month; however, after reading the definition of the word “saucy,” I have an idea.  According to www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary, “saucy” means: 1. served with or having the consistency of sauce 2 a: impertinently bold and impudent    b: amusingly forward and flippant: irrepressible Going with the second definition, March this year…

  • Sweets for your sweetie

    What is black and white and red all over and comes in the middle of February?  It isn’t a sunburned penguin, nor is it an embarrassed skunk.    It’s also not a zebra running through a strawberry patch.  Give up?  It’s my annual column with recipes for Valentine’s Day.  (Black-on-white print in the newspaper that is…