One of my most practiced hobbies besides cooking and sewing is crocheting. You might say I’m hooked on it. My mother taught me how when I was around five or six years old, and I have made countless items since. I started out making long chains; when I mastered that step, Mom showed me how to single crochet and then double crochet. I learned to create headbands for myself using yarn scraps from my mom’s projects. While looking through my…..
One of the blessings of summer is fresh berries; blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries are some of my favorites (in that order). I have read quite a bit lately about the health benefits of these berries, and there is not one of them that I don’t enjoy eating by the handful. Of the three, blackberries are probably my favorite because I have so many memories of picking them. All the effort was rewarded with one bite of my mother’s blackberry pie. …..