JAMIE DENTY

…I began to understand how important cooking is for people and for family histories. Rosie Grant We all have encountered or heard of...

Traveling across country, my husband and I have watched many a parade in small towns. Some have been standouts like the Mardi Gras parade...

One day in a big box store, I was both seen and unseen. As I walked down a long aisle, a middle aged man had parked his buggy next to...

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity, but in doing it. Greg Anderson, fitness trainer and...

My grandson told me that he didn’t want me to retire from teaching. It’s enough to make a grandmother’s heart flutter. I wanted to think...

In the late 1800s, during the machine age, a set of manufactured porch spindles were purchased, a thing of beauty in their uniformity....

When my husband and I were first married, we frequently exchanged invitations for dinner with other newlyweds. My maid of honor, who...

Last month, our daughter gave her dad a box of Girl Scout cookies - shortbread style- his favorite. When she was a Scout, we always...

Everything in our house has a story to tell. I believe a house feels more like a home when its full of stories. Interior designer Diana...

When my husband and I first married, his mother gave me several potted plants for our kitchen window. When she visited us some six months...

Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren’t. ~ Japanese Proverb I like proverbs. I like knowing some people...

When Julia had first read Little Women, she told her sisters about the four fictional sisters in the book, and they began to argue over...

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has been in the news recently, not because of the book, but because of the latest version of it on film,...

If you’ve read about chili, you have come to the conclusion that no one dares put beans in chili in Texas. If you believe the reports,...

Recently, I completed a three-hour, computerized safe driver’s course for insurance purposes. While we might bemoan such requirements, a...

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17...

On the morning of July 23, after several weeks without rain, we watched a beautiful rainbow arch against a blue sky between fluffy white...

For as long as I can remember, I have used a heating pad, either electric or microwave heated, to ease a variety of aches and pains. Most...

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever...

Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten,...