Our Election Process Needs A New Operating System When our election rules and systems were set up, we traveled by horse. News took days, if not weeks to reach the public. With the advent of trains, cars, planes, radio, TV and the Internet, news is available 24/7. Today, we experience excruciating long nasty campaigns. The [...]

Thanksgiving is only days away. If you want to have a “Natural Thanksgiving” now is the time to think about it. A natural Thanksgiving sounds easy enough, but it takes some forethought. For the last 30 years, our Thanksgivings have been as natural (chemical free) as possible. Most Thanksgiving dinners are loaded with ingredients the Pilgrims [...]

Cooking is equal parts science and art. If you get either wrong, the dish may be ruined or you may create a masterpiece. It’s a toss up. You never know the result. Last week, I checked out Aleksandra Mir’s The How Not to Cook Book: Lessons learned the hard way from the library. Mir offers [...]

How fast things change. It just goes to show you the power of the Internet. I would have never guessed in a million years that my Happy Birthday to My Happy Meal blog would create an international stir. (Pictured is my Happy Meal on its first birthday.) In the past week, I’ve been interviewed for [...]

I can’t believe the first decade of the millennium is almost over! So much has happened in the last ten years (for me, most in the last half of the decade). I “retired” in April of 2004 from my job at a local TV station. My retirement lasted about 6 months, when I began writing [...]

Today’s blog is devoted to Joy and Guy’s wedding. Saturday, Joy my youngest daughter, married the love of her life, Guy. Many out-of-town relatives come for our celebrations, so we cram as much as possible into a few days. We began the wedding week with a bridal shower and ended the day after the wedding with [...]

I thought waiting for a baby was difficult when I was the one pregnant. The last 4 weeks seemed as long as the first eight months! But, I think it’s even harder when you’re waiting for a grandbaby. We now have 7. Some came to us by way of adoption, some biological. All are loved. Each grandbaby [...]

I wouldn’t have believed it if you told me a few years ago, that I’d be making casseroles for my dogs. I thought I was feeding them the most nutritious of dog foods. In fact, it was a brand sold in whole foods stores. I mused about it in my book, Baby Bites, “There’s something [...]