Beneath our Norway maple – felons, vandals and thieves
It’s garden season. All the trees, bushes and pretty flowers in my backyard look so innocent. But I have learned – the hard way – that they are out to get me. They are a well-organized crime family, with covert agents working ...
Years ago, I learned how to do Swedish weaving from my grandmother and grandfather. We called it huck towel weaving. I had no idea it was an old Swedish craft. I am not sure how my grandmother got involved doing it, but she did.
On a day that my grandfather did not have to work we went to ...
It was 92 stifling degrees when I arrived home from lunch yesterday. Humidity was in the 80% range. As predicted. I hate this hot stuff. Fuggedaboudit.
I know there are people who thrive in the heat. I’m happy for them, but I will never be one of them. Ever. I should have been born in ...
“Nearly the whole of the professional, intellectual, and government class has betrayed the cause of universal human liberty in our times.” — Jeffrey Tucker.
Our government forces taxpayers to subsidize those who chose not to work, lavishes subsidies on Wall Street billionaires for ...
About a week ago I was sitting on my porch when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. Since I have many chipmunks, I thought it was probably one of those. Then I saw more movement. I got up to have a look. There was a fawn in my flower bed.
I went inside to get my phone to take a ...
Truer words were never spoken. That quote by author Avery Aames sums up my lifelong love affair with cheese.
After I stopped eating school cafeteria lunches, good old American cheese became a thing of my past. In college, I met a few French students who knew the cheese world. It was all new ...