Yesterday I baked molasses cookies. Now you might wonder why I baked early. These cookies freeze very well. I made some in the shape of pumpkins and some trees and gingerbread men. We will have the pumpkins for Thanksgiving and the others will be for Christmas. This recipe has a history. My ...

The crazy idea of writing a book did not surface early. I had to wait until sanity abandoned me. A devoted reader since I was a kid, I always thought that books were the result of brilliant minds, great imaginations, and writerly skills. Ordinary people like me didn’t write books. But you ...

“You Can’t Go Home Again” is the title of a 1940 novel by Thomas Wolfe. He is correct. Last week, I tried. I could not go home again. Affection for the songs of the late country music star Johnny Cash sent me to my hometown of Warren. A tribute singer performed at the century-old ...

Last week my son and daughter-in-law brought me a box of old magazines. They told me about them first, then brought them up for me to go through. They were something that was missed when the homestead had been cleaned out. My mother-in-law and I both subscribed to a magazine called ...

The scholastic and collegiate wrestling season is fast approaching and our sons and daughters in Warren County will soon begin training. Participant numbers for wrestling at middle-high schools in Warren County and across northwest Pennsylvania are in continual decline. This decrease in the ...

’Tis the season for giving thanks. This holiday that we know as Thanksgiving was first designated by President George Washington as a day of national thanksgiving. Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave it the fourth Thursday in November date. I think this goes back to our roots as a nation. We ...