Looking Toward a New Year

This was originally written in December of 2014 as part of my “Cooks Corner” column. I have edited it to make it more “timeless.” However, I left my grandchildren’s ages the same as they were at the time. Vivian is 12 and Liam is 11 as of...

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...