Without shame, I admit that I have never made a pumpkin pie from scratch.  Maybe you haven’t either?  Now, before you get testy and mad at me please let me explain.  I have never purchased a frozen pie crust.  My “never fail pie crust recipe” lives up to its name.  My husband says it is even better than his mother’s.  Please don’t pout, Myna, everything else you make is better … [Read more...]

“I can bring home the bacon and fry it up in the pan.  I am  woman, hear me ROAR,” sings Helen Ready in a song.  Before women learned to roar, they stayed home to take care of the kids and the house.  When mothers felt the need for adult conversation, they invited the  neighbors over for coffee and dessert. The dessert had to be homemade and fabulous. This was showing off … [Read more...]

I headed to the grocery store to stock up on Easter supplies.  Maybe your Easter menu is like mine?  Ham, baked potatoes, asparagus, fresh fruit salad and cake make up my Easter dinner.  The most important items on my list included malted milk Easter eggs and Brach’s maple cream eggs.   I buy at least five bags of the malted milk eggs because this  is the only time they are … [Read more...]

The mail is usually the same: bills, catalogs, money requests, and assorted junk mail.  How boring.  Then one day a while ago, the mail was exciting!  I had received an actual greeting card from an old teaching colleague.  It had a stamp and had been sent through “snail mail.”  I love cards and greetings that come through “snail mail.”  An e-invite, an e-thank you note or an … [Read more...]

In movies, books and even in real life, opposites attract.  You understand the science behind magnets, right?  Enough said.  My question is does this attraction of opposites last when the novelty wears off?  This is the true story of two ordinary high school students growing up in tiny towns in the Midwest.  Let’s call them J. and K.  They are both juniors in high school and … [Read more...]