I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2025. May all your dreams come true in this new year!

I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2025. May all your dreams come true in this new year!

It’s Advent and, after much thought and contemplation, I’ve chosen my advent reading for the season. I can’t wait to reread The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
Today’s Writer Wednesday series continues with a discussion of one of the most personal things in a writer’s life. Their To Be Read (TBR) pile. The TBR is something that’s rarely shared and…
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.
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.
Since we’re already well into the month of January, I thought I’d share some of my late New Year’s Day traditions that I never do on time.
Let’s raise a glass to toast Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Poet and the author of Auld Lang Syne. His birthday is this weekend, and I’ve included the recipes for a traditional Burns Supper. Slainte!