6/27/2023It’s the evening of the orange chiffon cake reboot. If I was almost undone by trying to bake lemon meringue pies, on repeat, in the summer of 1984, orange chiffon cake nearly broke me as it too eluded my slim baking skills. Mrs. Cameron was demanding and held high standards. She could also be incredibly …
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When life gives you lemons…
attending school for 25 consecutive years? When it started, Andrew was beginning kindergarten and Olivia was beyond excited to begin her first year of preschool at three-and-a-half years old in Mrs. Debby Neubold’s classroom at Little Lamb’s Preschool. Sam was two-and-a-half and got to spend lots of time with me, carrying around his “pack-pack” pretending, …
Life is for living
had a zest for life. Before she was a wife and mother, Geraldine went on a grand adventure. She took 3 months and solo hiked across England and Norway in the late 50s when young women didn’t really do those things. She had a library science degree from Simmons College in Boston and studied for …
How did you spend the first rainy Saturday in October?
The run up to Labor Day weekend this year meant the semester began at Lycoming and I was busy after a summer of non-stop home improvement projects. Traditionally Labor Day weekend is the closing of summer and the beginning of fall. We have a local weather man who describes September, October, and November as meteorologic …
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
Sam turned up first on Friday evening and Olivia arrived shortly after —the opening to a FUN weekend. When Sam asked about one of her Masters projects, it was interesting to be “the fly on the wall” and listen-in to a brief, but intense conversation between them. They literally spoke to each other in the …
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In close to 20 years of making maple syrup, this is the first year Keith has snowshoes to make traversing the snowy woods easier in the aftermath of a March snow storm. Plus they are fun to use —and a good workout. Last year Keith injured his achilles tendon while trudging through deep snow in …
