I hope that by the time you read this I’m sitting in a house that has functioning electricity, a home with the heat cranked up to a toasty 68 degrees, a home where, when...
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Every year, especially around the holidays, I wish for snow. All those years of wishes came true Tuesday night and on into Wednesday morning. When the first flakes fell Tuesday evening, I joked about...
Well, we did it! Dinner for 8 is in the books. If you’re a local reader, you are all too aware of the Carr Fire that raged through the west side of our city six months...
Welcome to 2019. If you’ve read this far, it means that you and I survived 2018; no small feat for many here in the north state considering the death and destruction wreaked by the...
Christmas may be over, but most kids are still out of school and need something to do other than watch TV. Today’s activity will make kids – and birds – happy. In the last...
In terms of ease, making bouquet garni bags filled with dried herbs and seasonings is right up there with the simplicity of forcing bulbs for gifts, which we featured last week. Classic bouquet garni ...
Meanwhile, back at Noni Doni’s little sweatshop workshop, we bring you the second in a series of holiday gift projects: Forced bulbs that will grow into beautiful spring flowers inside your home. This is...
As I compare and contrast me now and me way back then, I barely recognize my former self during the holidays, especially in my 20s, 30s and 40s. Back then, I started playing holiday...
This “Encore” article was originally published December 24, 2016. Today I talk with Randy Plummer, someone I respect as an excellent cook and retired caterer, but also someone whose specialty is prime rib, a...
OK, I may have overstated it with the”beautiful jewelry” headline. But it’s no exaggeration when I say that this project is a lot of fun, and not just for kids. I think the outcome...
