I want to wish you all a Happy and Blessed Easter!
My sincerest hope is that despite the stress of the current nationwide lockdown, you all find happiness and peace with the ones you love and the One who loves you.

I want to wish you all a Happy and Blessed Easter!
My sincerest hope is that despite the stress of the current nationwide lockdown, you all find happiness and peace with the ones you love and the One who loves you.

I love birthdays, especially those that come with cake recipes and stories about miracles and saints.
Although I love Christmas, and go all out in decorating, there used to be a time when few people decorated before Advent–those four dark weeks before Christmas.
The holidays are over and winter is here and deadlines are coming up fast. So it’s time to focus on delicious winter meals that can also be frozen in smaller portions. This beef stew is a perfect choice.
Today’s Writer Wednesdays post is about efficiency and organization. It’s about phone apps! And not just apps for authors!! I’m a lucky woman to be surrounded by so many teenagers…
In my third post about Pennhurst Asylum, once known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, I discuss voices of those who were never allowed to speak.
Tomorrow night I’m serving my version of the Van Tassel feast that Washington Irving wrote about in his famous spooky story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I’m serving ham and cheese hand pies, roasted chicken in a pumpkin, spiced peach cake, and to accompany it all I’m also making my favorite spiced pear chutney.