Genuine Italian Spaghetti and Meatball feast Sunday, October 10, 2010, 11-5
Hello everyone! It's Columbus Day weekend! Columbus Day is Monday, October 11, 2010. It is a Federal Holiday, so mail won't be delivered, US Government offices across America will …
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by Celia Hayes
Having the winds kick up over this last weekend was wonderful, after what seems like an eternity of soggy, brutal and unrelenting heat. The winds also revived memories of what it was like, when I was growing up in the hill country – the …
By Celia Hayes
A while ago, I wrote an essay, speculating on one of the very few rites of adult passage in American society. So many of the previous rites of passage have shifted position so radically as to render them useless. First Communion, Confirmation, Bar …
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There are certain dwelling places that are ever so much more than the houses that most of us are content to live in . . . these houses – or mansions, rather – …
By Celia Hayes
This was an amusement thought up by the Queen of the Red Hats group – which is not officially a Red Hats' group, but is really just a group of ladies of a certain age, who call themselves the Cherry Bonnets, and think …
Like many of these things that I am reluctant to do at first, but get talked into and eventually start having fun – getting into the home-brewing and cheese-making was my daughter's idea. Many months ago, I …
by Celia Hayes
So, my daughter and I have been experimenting with a lot of do-it-yourself food, lately; Breads and cheese, beer and wine, mostly. It's part of our family culture, or it might be in our DNA, an ancestral proclivity to have a …
By Julia Hayden
That sprinkle of damp stuff, seeming to fall out of the darkest clouds in the sky . . . oh, yeah. They call that stuff rain – that is, when there is slightly more of it than fell on Saturday morning, courtesy of a few stray …
Ours doesn't – in fact, the pile of home-made and ageing cheeses currently takes up about half of the bottom of the refrigerator: half a dozen waxed roundels, awaiting their time to be consumed. No, there's quite a chummy little gathering, of farmhouse cheddar …
by Julia Hayden
So a couple of weeks ago, my daughter dragged me – only protesting faintly – away from my home comforts and the computer, and my customary Friday evening comforts to go to an art gallery. Yes indeedy – I have a connection to the San …