Napkins? Give Me Two, Please
How do busy families instill table manners, and what happens when the mom herself is a food-dropping klutz? Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb confesses to always needing a napking or two.
A Tale of Tapioca: Daddy’s Little Deception
Miffed and mildly embarrassed, my high school senior, Jo, admitted one more time to friends at school that, as a little girl, her dad told her that tapioca was fish eggs.
Live At Blossom Music Center
Lines of traffic backed up along the road in the rural area leading to the Blossom Music Center. We should have allowed more travel...
For The Graduate
Although I've noticed the graduation cap and gown hanging in my daughter's closet on those few occasions when I invade her private space, nothing brought her imminent graduation home so vividly as an awards night ceremony where her classmates were honored for their high school achievements.
The Missing Desk Mystery
This true story was referenced at the 2008 Republican National Convention:
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a...
Boshblobberbosh’ Words from Westerville
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes of an author's visit to Columbiana.
Summing up summer
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes of crickets and katydids, gerbils and kittens, and a brand new clothes line.
Doggone Takin’ Me Back
Sometimes the most vague scent, sound or taste remembered from the past will transport you back to a time gone by. If you look...
Where are our manners?
I presided for the first time at a Women's Club meeting and a few of the girls (I'll call us girls even though we're all over 50) had to leave early.
Keys to a Healthy Heart
May the force (against mindless food consumption) be with us.
