There’s nothing like being in a foreign land to inspire one to cook some of the fine produce of the country. As I consider ‘D’, the next letter in the Picnic Game alphabet, I can’t help but laugh when I think of one of my closest calls with culinary disaster. …
Yesterday, June 19th, we celebrated America’s newest federal holiday. When Joe Biden signed it into law on Thursday, June 17th, it squeaked into the record books barely 48 hours before festivities were due to kick off. Finally, Americans have red circle on their calendars honoring the day in 1865 when …
I have decided to while away some hours between now and that wonderful moment when the aircraft doors are ‘prepared for take-off’ by assembling my shopping list. The first several letters of the alphabet are enough to sustain life for 10 days without any problem. Consider these possibilities in just …
I so love Sunset Magazine’s articles about road trips. The photographs draw you in, making for compulsive page-turning. A teardrop camper poised on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. A family picnicking in a grove of redwoods. A birder or a photographer, binoculars or camera in hand, dwarfed by sand-sculpted …
For a variety of reasons, I missed posting on the last Sunday in May, over Memorial Day weekend. I wanted to write about what the day signifies, why we have such a day in our country’s holiday calendar. We are called to “honor and mourn the military personnel who have …
