My Mother’s Prayers
Happy Mother’s Day to all of the hard-working, talented, unrelenting, driven and determined mothers, who day after day, keep the house, prepare meals, counsel kids, plead with teacher’s…while many work their secular jobs, and last but not least, keep their hubby’s happy. Wow! No wonder…
Stuff the Roast
Creative cooking has been around for as long as people have had an imagination. All it requires is everyday food, an idea on how to transform it, and a means with how to cook it. I was thinking about the cooking class I conducted…
Eat Your Spinach
Hi Everybody! I’m just wondering what season of the year we are in? Is it winter, spring, or maybe fall? I know the month is March, and actually spring doesn’t start until March 22, but more days than not, my winter coat has had…
A Holiday For Love
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and it is on this holiday that the love letters flow, boxes of candy fly off the shelves, and long stemmed roses peer out of ribbon-tied vases, and all for that special someone in our lives. I…
Happy Hobbies
Hi everybody! It’s been awhile since I’ve had a newsletter out, notwithstanding that I had to prepare for twenty people during the Christmas holidays; then clean up after the crew left. There are some traditions that I just may have to revise; like hosting all…
My Best Side
Hi Everybody! Beside a thousand leaves to be raked, twigs galore laying in my front and back yard, and a ton of housecleaning to be done, I have to tell you that it’s this time of the year when I lay in bed and think…
Falling UP
Country Apple Pie Every time I think of the fall season, I think of Shel Silverstein’s poem…Falling Up. It goes like this: I tripped on my shoelace And I fell up- Up to the roof tops, Up over the town, Up past the…
Gym It Up
After gaining 15 pounds, and spiraling upward, I have decided to gym it up. Two classes back to back this morning left me feeling like a wet noodle, and really decrepit! First, the Pump-It-Up class, where everyone throws weights around like small twigs off a…
Rattle Me Young
Rattle Me Young I am a very busy person, and for that I am grateful. I say this because if I weren’t so hyperactive, driven, determined, and just plain crazy, I guess I would just give up and go to be with Jesus. Notwithstanding,…
Good Ole’ July
Good Ole’July The month of July could be one of my most memorable months as a child. I can still see us kids running around with a glass jar catching fire flies. Sometimes we would take their glowing parts and put them on our face…