Tradition Leaves Legacy and Love
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb finds a simple tradition in the form of a cookie press - but, oh, the memories it carries.
How The Cookie Crumbles
Cookies aren't going away anytime soon since they are firmly baked into our culture. According to one food historian, "[They] mean mother, and milk, and tea.
Summer 2005: Once in a lifetime
After Flag Day and Father's Day, we're headed fast toward the heart of summer. How do we fit all those special times that can best be enjoyed on a summer day into the limited weekends on our calender?
Inevitably, events coincide and choices must be made.
Shrimp for supper?
Home Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about her family's adventure with a stray crayfish.
Good food matters
I work part-time in a clothing consignment shop. I’m used to hearing comments from the dressing room when things don’t fit. Every so often,...
Getting to the Heart of Soul Food
Over the centuries and throughout the world and every culture, food, and the sharing thereof, tends to warm the heart and knit the soul....
Giving a Fig (and Getting One)
I've always liked fig bar cookies but I never thought much about the seedy fruit wrapped inside them till just four years ago. We...
A Sewing Fool: The Case of the Complicated Cassocks
Once a sewing mom, always a sewing mom. If you haven't heard that phrase already, I'll take credit for it. After taking four measurements...
Nuts to the nutty (especially pecans)
"Oh, It's the Nuts": An old commercial jingle for Fifth Avenue candy bars went something like that. Well, "Nuts to the nutty," as they...
Deersville, a devastated hot dog and dreams
Family trips tracing the burial plots of loved ones creates lots of memories for Home Living editor Laurie Marlatt Steeb.
