By now, your Christmas decorations are stored in the attic . . . except maybe for that stray ornament like I just found, that somehow didn’t make it into the box, which may possibly roll around in the kitchen drawer until next year. All the Christmas lights are removed from your porch roof—unless you’re one of [...]
My grandmother (Betty Jones) believed that every family—especially hers—should gather around the dinner table together, often. So, she put up homegrown vegetables all summer for our weekly family dinners. If she hadn’t, well, we might have had to settle for mere store-bought produce. She made homemade mayonnaise because the kind in the jar just wouldn’t do. [...]
“Did we meet? I don’t remember you at all.” Wrote the editor of a large publishing house in a curt (bordering on rude) email. We had met together just a few weeks before but obviously, I failed to make a lasting impression. Ouch. He went on to say, “Your book proposal doesn’t meet our current [...]