The 2011 garden season is officially launched. The onions are up and growing well in a row of deep flats. I’ll transplant them into the garden soon. One shelf of my basement light unit is filled with early cabbage, Chinese and Savoy cabbage, broccoli, parsley, lavender, coneflowers, peppers, and several other herbs and flowers that will […]
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray.” This song is one I sang to all of our children when they were little. I confess that I’d dance around the dining room with them, singing at the top of my lungs. Lucky for me there was no Youtube […]
Miss Witbeck, my third grade teacher really made a difference for me. She set up a little nook behind the piano in our room with a typewriter in it and called it “Patty’s Office.” When I would finish my work early I’d adjourn to my own little space where I would bang out stories, always […]
Dear Folks, As I know our time in Illinois is running down, I would like to share some of the sights we have seen and watched grow over our five years of traveling back and forth, and back and forth, and back, oh never mind, you get my drift. We can honestly say we have […]
My daughter Tonya bought me some fresh asparagus from a coworker’s garden. My children all loved it, and spinach, when they were growing up; they still do. I used to buy spinach by the case back then and steam it for supper with a little butter and seasonings. I have a lot of recipes for asparagus […]
When I think about a financial recovery, the thing that excites me is the millions of previously hard-working people who would go back to work. I would be excited for their families, and what an economic relief it would be for them. Families could again have the essentials, maybe even a few luxuries or take a […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An abandoned item at the Ohio State Fair led authorities to close the Skyway ride and a section of the fair on its opening day. Multiple media outlets report that the Columbus fire department bomb squad was called in Wednesday afternoon to detonate the package, a soft-sided cooler. It was found […]
In our 49th season, we opened in New York with “Lost in Yonkers,” moved to Maine for “The Whales of August,” followed by the French Riviera for “The Boy Friend,” back to the USA for “All My Sons,” and then the world itself became our stage for Kander and Ebb’s “The World Goes Round.” Once again, […]