Cake Baking Discoveries

My husband made me a birthday cake this year. It was a big deal just because he normally doesn’t do anything for birthdays, anniversaries, mother’s day, father’s day. . .well, you get the idea. He had made me a couple of b-day cakes in the past, but those were in the first few years of […]

Traveling Blues

Ever notice how most people are rather upbeat and optimistic at the beginning of a trip whether it is for work or “pleasure.” The other morning at a hotel a family was at the front desk asking travel related questions as I was dropping off our keys. The parents and the children were talking about […]

Drinking Straw

The advantages of using glass straws instead of plastic.

Maybe It Is A Curse

It may be that my husband is getting ready to go out of town on business and something always goes wrong at home.  It may be that it is this date with its long history of the horrible happening around it.  Regardless, the fun has begun. The week started with my eye being irritated.  Then, […]