“I’m only spending $40 a month on coffee drinks now. I have my budget on a spreadsheet,” my older daughter and coffee lover commented. My daughter’s 2021 goal was to spend less money on coffee, so spending $10 a week was an improvement. Paying rent and other away-from-home expenses ...
Farewell, fellow gardener. After almost 30 years of sharing my gardening experience, expertise, and enthusiasm in columns for The Associated Press, I’ve decided to focus my time and energy in other directions. Thanks for joining me as, according to the seasons, I selected tomato varieties ...
We recently set up our Christmas tree in our living room. It is something that I look forward to each year. Placing cherished ornaments on the pine branches is a recipe for reflection and memories. Like many of you, we have a collection of ornaments that helps us recall the precious and ...
Have you noticed that when the days cool down, colors warm up? In driving around this fall, I have noticed some golden and cranberry red leaves that smolder like embers—especially if they were embraced by the sun. Some of my very favorite colors to see in the fall are pumpkins and gourds ...
Nothing is more enticing than the smell of popcorn popping. It attracts many at basketball games, summer theater, the movie theater and fairs. For a good part of my life, I have been popping popcorn, and I have always found it to be enjoyable. I love seeing the smiles when people start ...
Last summer, I was doing a bit of cleaning in our attic and came across a box of telephones that we had saved. In the box was Jan’s coffee brown rotary dial phone that she had when she taught in Wolford, our pink princess telephone from our pink bedroom, and a unique green phone that had been used at our studio in Rugby. In fact, all phones that we had ever owned were in this box. Lots of memories came floating out of that box, and it was for that reason I couldn’t toss them out. So back in the attic they went. In November, I retrieved them and used them in a program to celebrate ...
