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…
Who can resist the spicy, sweet smell of freshly baked gingerbread, especially during the holidays? There is something about that smell and the memories it…
It was 1879, and the Civil War had been over just nine years, a war that had devastated the Commonwealth of Virginia as perhaps no…
People in my family have always been lovers of salt. That grainy white stuff in the shaker on the dinner table was the star of…
"The Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic Demographic Transition, or Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to…
Just when I thought that my one apron, Old Faithful was all I needed, I found a cute vintage garment I call Miss Priss, the…
I always felt different than my sisters. We were all born in a big city, yet I did not embrace city life as they did. …
Once upon a time, everyone could find an elder, even if it wasn’t in their own family, who had ties to the “old ways of…
As we all know, the evolution of the kitchen — room, concept, purpose, and practicality — began on a camping trip. It was a camping…
Mead: in the western world, the very word conjures images of warriors in leathers drinking from horns or human skulls. Despite this barbarous image, the…
As we learned in "The Other Little House: The Poo Papers, Part 1", the great outdoors was—and for many in the world, still is—the place…
Believe it or not, for most of the 150,000 odd years humans have been walking the earth, we couldn’t drink milk. Children drink milk of…