Practical Information for a Better Life!
Practical Information for a Better Life!
From 1980 to 2016 Prairie Home Companion was the Saturday night choice of entertainment for approximately 2.6 million listeners who tuned into NPR radio for 2 hours of fun. On one Saturday each year they did “The Joke Show”. The…
In addition to the illness and deaths caused by Covid-19 in the past two years, it has also caused unprecedented stress, anxiety, and frustration for hundreds of millions who never got the virus. Much of that is due to the…
I never liked history classes until I got to college. My freshman year in college I had a professor who made the subject fascinating and relevant. Until then I had only been taught American history, and it was taught as…
Author Edith Wharton wrote in her autobiography that her book The Age of Innocence allowed her to find a momentary escape in going back to her childish memories of a long-vanished America. The Age of Innocence was published in 1920.…
Approximately 210 million Americans don’t have access to high speed internet, according to MicroSoft Corp. I’m one of them. I split my time between my water-front home on Florida’s Forgotten Coast and my husband’s ranch at the top of a…
The best crab cakes I’ve ever had are made and served at a small upscale restaurant called Lenoras in the tiny town of Perryopolis south of Pittsburgh, PA. Not a place indigenous to crabs. Lenora, the owner, is the chef…
In the summer of 2011 I visited the Painted Desert in the Four Corners where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. As part of the Petrified Forest National Park, the Painted Desert offers little vegetation or signs of life.…
Back in the 1990s, I had a film crew taping interviews with customers who had bought a gardening product called the ComposTumbler … a product I marketed from 1986 to 2009. One interview with an older gentleman, a master gardener …