Last week I was invited to a lunch party. We ate strawberries fresh from the garden on a long table under a spreading maple tree. They were the sweetest I’d…
If you get confused by these Spanish words for little boy and little girl, as they are applied to the weather, you are not alone! El Niño or La Niña apply…
A young lady in my family turned sixteen this week. She had a Sweet Sixteen party, which was, I understand, small and sweet – she treated her best friends at…
The coronation is behind us, not that many in the U.S. were waiting breathlessly when it was before us. But it is to be acknowledged, if not universally, that it…
What’s an archive? It is a repository for the original documents of history. Not just the President’s papers and classified information, but letters, notes, and photographs that record the lives…
I’ve just returned from a visit to my family in Australia. Early settlers there may have made this simple campfire bread. “Damper” as it is called, was made by the…