Seven years of blogging
7 years ago (2/11/10) I started to write a blog, mostly about a small business I did for a while. Life got in the way and I didn’t continue that […]
Category Archives: Nostalgia
Back to a place of childhood memories
In the fall I went on a magical trip, back to a place where I spent a lot of time when I was growing up and as a young adult: […]
We love our history here
The other day I took a tour of one of the oldest buildings in Shippensburg. And what a fascinating tour it was! What was originally Widow Piper’s Tavern, built in […]
It all started with blue corn
Blue Hopi corn, to be exact. The seeds were given to me last year by a dear lady who has since passed away. Her family had been growing this corn […]
Ahhh, Small Town America
Small Town America is a good place to be. It’s nice to block off the main streets and have vendors come from all over to sell neat things. It’s nice […]
The Great Bread Bowl Story
That is a picture of a bread bowl. The biggest bread bowl I’ve ever seen. Here’s the Great Bread Bowl story. My son and now daughter in law were married […]
A beautiful Beltane handfasting
My almost-daughter-in-law is now not almost, cos she and my son were married on Beltane, 5/1. You can read a lot about Beltane if you search, and also a lot […]
Almost time for pork and sauerkraut!
Traditions are fun and also important…….remembering older ways of doing things is being lost in some ways. In this general area, we have a New Year’s day tradition that comes […]
A primrose blooms
My mother passed away in a nursing home in the spring. A while before she died, a friend gave her a little potted primrose. She liked it, but she kept […]
So many reasons to be thankful
I have a lot to be thankful for. Thanksgiving is a special day with special history; a time when people stop to remember what all they have to […]
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