Tired of Winter? Think Spring!

I remember one of the first times I saw mustard and pickle relish in my potato salad. “Certainly,” I thought, “someone got this wrong”. In our family, the recipe that’s been handed down from my Pennsylvania Dutch Great-Grandmother, is considered the one and only way...

Be on the Alert. Stand Strong!

Well known speaker and author Chuck Swindoll pointed out some words of wisdom from the Apostle Paul found in the book of 1 Corinthians. Paul was visiting with the Christians in Greece. The Greeks were educated, philosophized, cultured folk to be sure. But the...

REST on Sunday.

As many of you know, I love to dish about holidays, special days and the food that comes along with them in most cases! But my favorite day, I will have to admit, doesn’t come annually, it actually comes weekly and it falls on Sunday. Remember those tea towels...

Have Your Cake and Eat it too!

I just might be the first person to wish you HAPPY CARNIVAL SEASON. Most of you may be thinking, “But it’s too cold for a fair.” Nope. Not that kind of amusement, but the kind of carnival season that leads up to Mardi Gras. And believe it or not,...

My 500th post!

A very special thanks to any and all of you who have graciously stopped by now and again. Hard to believe that today marks my 500th posting of this blog. When I started back in 2006, I didn’t even know what a blog really was. So I think I was mostly ramble...