Okay, raise your hand if you have ever used a privy. My guess is that many over a certain age will have their hands waving…
My husband Donnie was raised near the Brushy Mountains of North Carolina, a little set of scenic, high hills in the central part of the…
I admit, I am very pro-Thanksgiving. What's not to like about Turkey Day? On what other holiday can we get together with family, spare a…
Long before I'd heard of Sylvester Graham, when I was a child, way back when, in the good old days, once upon a time… we…
Jay Lehman had a dream. It was a modest dream. But the dream of Lehman's Store that started in a tiny community among people who…
I recently had breakfast with my three-year old granddaughter, Josephine, in a rather chi-chi diner of her choosing. When her pancake arrived it was garnished…
In the fall of 1980, I found myself on a hillside in Sussex England on a cold grey day, stuffing compost by the forkful into…
I was born just before the end of World War II. As a child I often heard the term "victory garden" but by the time…
I first learned about Popcorn Sutton by trawling the viewing options on TV (if that is still a real term) one evening. Since I am…
I was reading through some old books looking for information on this and that, when I came across THIS: maggots as medicine. But wait—there's more.…
I’ve been engaged in a “healthcare debate” in my head for years. It focuses particularly on that monster known as Big Pharma. I have my…
A couple weeks ago I was vacationing in the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Parks that adjoin in western Arizona. The views were so…