If you’ve not been watching (bingeing) on Pasta Grannies videos on YouTube or their website, you are missing a true treat. You just can’t help but feel good while watching them. I stumbled upon their channel quite by accident. You know how you start following a link or do a search, and as you go… Continue reading My Pasta Grannies Cookbook Has Arrived!

The headline states 2021, but it is a question I’ve been pondering for a long number of years, but especially more so over the last four years. In watching elected officials, law enforcement, and religious leaders, I wonder if they have asked themselves this question in their respective roles. They call themselves Christian, but in… Continue reading What is a Christian Value in 2021?

After the Inauguration, how many of us thought we would be able to go a few days, or even a week, without hearing about the former guy? I thought a couple of days would be possible, a week would be icing on the cake. Alas, I don’t think I’ve been able to go even a… Continue reading Just Can’t Quit Him

Sorry all. Nursing a nagging headache that won’t go away today. I’ll be back tomorrow.

I’ve been subscribing to different cooking and baking magazines over the years. Every once in a while a dinner recipe would catch my eye. We’d give it a try and the recipe would go off into the netherworld never to be seen or tried again. Recently that began to change. I was reading Southern Cast… Continue reading New Recipes

The common understanding is it takes 21 days to form a new habit. We all probably know this is a bit of a misnomer. A new habit might be formed in just a few days, and others take much much longer. Family dynamics are the same. Each of us in a family get placed in… Continue reading Habits

Dear Mr. Harrison, Outside of President Biden, you are in a very hot seat right now. I might argue it is even hotter than the one in which the President is sitting. It is up to you to not only grow the Democratic Party and increase Democratic voters at the polls, you also have to… Continue reading Dear Jaime Harrison

Working through a family issue tonight. All is fine, just one of those unexpected things to deal with in the moment.

My mom sent me this picture today asking if I knew who she was. Since there are many older people from my youth who have been passing over the past couple of years, I thought this was someone who had died recently. Although she looked very familiar and my memory was she had already passed… Continue reading So Kind to Us

There is a show on FX called The Americans. It is about a Russian husband and wife operating as spies in the United States. The show is set during the era of the Cold War and all the things they were doing to get American secrets to the Soviets. Let’s play a what if… We… Continue reading The Americans?