Beginning to Look Like Christmas

Maybe it was the fruitcake baking that got me into the Christmas spirit.  No, actually it was Pandora Radio’s holiday genre stations — folk holiday, jazz holiday, rock holiday, etc.  If you haven’t joined the Pandora band wagon, do it today – lots of music you never heard of but love when you hear.  About [...]

Moving Into Christmas

Stores opened at ungodly hours today for “Black Friday” shopping but I wasn’t in any of the lines. My Christmas list is small and I’m not organized enough to really know what I want to give, other than knowing that no one is getting a flat screen TV from me. I do know [...]

Traditional Thanksgiving Food

I have a weakness for mincemeat, especially enhanced with brandy or rum. Yesterday I bought a jar – even though I knew it was a bad idea – and managed to eat almost the whole thing before finally tossing the last bits. I felt stuffed and slightly nauseous and don’t think I’m [...]

Forging New Traditions

When I was growing up, summer was clearly defined. It started with Memorial Day and the opening of my grandfather’s beach house and ended with Labor Day, always at the beach with family and cookouts. The clans gathered en masse with adults and kids separating out to do our own things and only [...]

Easter Traditions are More than Just Food

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and we’ve been seeing chocolate bunnies and jelly beans, plastic grass and stuffed rabbits, and kits to color eggs since Valentine’s Day, substituting one candy holiday for another, apparently. Most of Us have eyes only for the chocolate and sugary candies that fill the shelves at CVS and everywhere else we’ve [...]