Have you ever heard those heartbreaking stories about the old lady who dies, and her daughter finds the fancy nighties and gorgeous dresses – with tags still on them – unworn because Mom was saving them? Or maybe it’s a set of beautiful china that was just too special to […]
About a million years ago, shortly after I moved to Rochester, and long before I met Husband, I dated this guy. One weekend, when someone was visiting from out of town, the whole family congregated in Buffalo for Sunday dinner. The entire family had been, in essence, born and raised […]
When my mother-in-law, Jane, was a girl, her mother would make candied grapefruit peel every Christmas. I’ve heard, for years now, about how wonderful that was, and how much she loved it, and how you just can’t buy it anymore. I had never had any candied grapefruit, though I’ve heard […]
Here it is, March already. No, wait, it’s April! And by “already” what I really mean is “FINALLY.” Isn’t it funny how, the older you get, the faster the time seems to fly by? Life events that you could swear were just a few years ago were actually decades ago. […]
Last weekend, Husband and I went to a coffee-roasting demonstration. It was really very interesting. We learned about the two basic types of coffee beans (robusto have more caffeine, but arabica have better flavor). We watched as the raw beans went from army green to tan to deep, roasty brown, […]
I may have mentioned this before, but I tend to be something of an introvert. I’m not good at . . . people. Yeah, sure, put me in front of a screen, and I’ll type a long, newsy, humorous e-mail. Stick a phone in my hand, and on a good […]
I’d really like to say it’s not you, that it’s me. But that’s not even true – I think it is you. At first, things were great – we’d get together every week, I did my part, and you told me what I wanted to hear. Gosh, how I enjoyed […]
We have a pair of cardinals in our yard; I’m pretty sure they’ve been with us for several years now. I love seeing them – Mr. Cardinal in his brilliant scarlet, and the quieter, rosy-hued Mrs. Cardinal, with the striking dark accents on her face. We’ve been feeding them, off […]
Doesn’t it seem like Father’s Day kind of gets the short end of the stick? I mean, just a month ago, on Mother’s Day, people were falling all over themselves to take Mom out for a nice brunch or a fancy dinner, or at the very least, to present her […]
Remember when we were kids, and our parents were soooooo oooooooold? I couldn’t IMAGINE even being as old as thirty! And my grandparents? Forget about it! I mean, they were in their sixties (I guess), and it was like they already had one foot in the grave and the other […]
