Leftovers
Kitchen experiments and thriftiness just seem to run in my family. We keep an old bookshelf in our cellar for pantry items. This thing has maybe two molecules of room left in it but every […]
Tag: Christmas
Could we at least finish summer, first?
September Sixth is the day I first saw Christmas items on the shelf of a local store. September Sixth. Well over a quarter of a year before Christmas. And yes, I have now been banned […]
Read This Recipe! It Will Save Your Life
Greek Appetizer SPANAKOPITA INGREDIENTS 8 green onions 2 medium brown onions 2 pounds fresh spinach ½ cup butter (½ cup more later) ½ cup olive oil 3 eggs 1 pound feta cheese 2½ tablespoons dill […]
When Should The Christmas Lights Come Down?
One of my favorite Holiday Season pastimes is driving around admiring Christmas lights. In other words, wasting lots of fuel in order to enjoy the creative ways my neighbors have chosen to waste lots of […]
How the Grinch Spent Christmas
I was waiting for this to be put on video and as a result waited too long … so now here’s my new Christmas column, coming out just in time for my youngest daughter’s birthday. […]
Holiday Reminiscing Gets Real
My brother and I have been reminiscing about past Christmas celebrations. Naturally we recalled the lovely ones first – such as our glittering, nighttime, sleigh rides behind George Tollefson’s team of Belgian mares. I can […]
A Christmas Letter………..
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:30 PM ( MY NEPHEW Wrote) Dearest Aunt, Could you find it in your heart to take a few minutes out of your busy day and send me the […]
How to Open a Christmas Present
Christmas will be here any day now. Well, actually, it will be here in three days, but it sounds more dramatic the way I say it. As a strict Christmas traditionalist, I feel that this […]
11 Reasons for Hallmark Christmas Movies…
Okay, I’m a sucker for these treacly, wonderful pieces of froth. I wanted something sweet when I have given up sweets. Can one get cavities from watching TV? I wanted romance. I […]
Post-Traumatic Easy Bake Oven Disorder
What’s your favorite horrible holiday childhood memory? One of my cherished unpleasant flashbacks arrive every year during Thanksgiving. First, a few facts: I was born a few days after Thanksgiving Day in 1961. At birth, I weighed […]