When you need a recipe for a special occasion and you want it to be a little healthier without sacrificing the taste, well, here it is.  This is delicious and nutritious and just plain good. This is a favorite dessert around our house. Honey-Sweetened Banana Cream Pie Ingredients 1/2 cup honey 3 tablespoons corn starch 1…

One of my friends asked if I would write my thoughts about happiness and joy. I have undertaken that task and have discovered that I need to break these topics into two separate essays; otherwise, I’m afraid I will not explore them to the level that will feel satisfying to me or to you, my…

I wrote this post 4 years ago when our little Luna was just two weeks old.  A very happy memory for this granddaughter who has brought so much light and love into all of our lives. *** I have been a grandmother for a little over two weeks now. This is what I know in…

I am reposting this recipe of chicken prepared in a clay pot because these pots are great at producing foolproof meat that is very moist.  You simply soak the pot first for fifteen minutes then place it in a cold oven before turning on the heat.  The moisture from the pot permeates the meat. Here you…

Ray and I have been watching the HBO’s 7-espisode limited series, “Big Little Lies,” with Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, and Laura Dern.  David E. Kelley is the writer of this murder mystery and Jean-Marc Vallee is the director.  The story lets you know in the first episode that there has been a murder, but the…

I am sitting here on this Friday evening recovering from an overnight with my grandbabies, who, God bless them, kept me going from the second they arrived until the moment we reconvened with their parents (who looked remarkedly rested, I might note). Here is a story that Luna and I wrote.  We were learning about…

I was dressed in a completely inappropriate shade of pink and I didn’t care. In fact, all I really wanted to do march down the aisle of that synagogue and shout “hello” to as many people as possible while the Rabbi was praying. Yes, you guessed it. I was ticked off at Rabbi Coulter. He…

Ray and I arrived at the orange grove about thirty minutes ago. He and the dogs are already snuggled up in bed; I am sitting at the table in the kitchen area writing this blog. We are here tonight and part of tomorrow. I just need to return in late afternoon for students.  It is…

Happy to say that life is settling down a bit.  I have finished with all my students who had term papers that called for burning the midnight oil, and Ray and I are almost finished with an estate that has required a lot of sorting, assessing, packing and moving. Hooray.  Life might just get back into…

Hi folks. Forgive my silence.  I have been snowed with work, both with students and with a recent estate we’re handling.  With one student, I helped work on a paper about T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock.  Now that is one interesting poem. Also, I am neck-deep with another student on…