This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. Here we are again, smack dab into another Christmas season. However, to be perfectly honest, in this home, the Christmas season runs from November 1st to January 1st-ish. My goal is to jam-pack the two months with Christmas music, lights, movies, food, and hopefully a blizzard. Getting my fill…

“Growing Old” is not a very welcome subject in America just now. [Or in 2024, for that matter!] Beauty experts and Keep-young-societies are filling the land with Anti-wrinkle Truth, yet the simple fact remains that our yesterdays do not come back. For most people, the advancing years are a blessing for through them we grow away from the follies and…

A few months ago a friend Aaryne sent me a little booklet she ran across somewhere in her travels. It made her think of me, she said, which shows she knows me pretty well. It’s called Successful Baking for Flavor and Texture.  The name alone is a giveaway that it wasn’t written recently. It was published in 1936 by the…

Some thoughts written in 1931 by a woman in Wyoming on the small courtesies that make life better for everyone– Recently I bought a dress and hat at a local shop kept by a women. Early in life, she was suddenly and without preparation thrust into the position of breadwinner for herself and husband. Through the various ups and downs…