It seems lately that we have had a lot of screen time in our house. The downside of that is you can only binge-watch a program so many times before...

 The end of February also marked the beginning of the end of the skiing season when I was growing up. Truthfully, growing up in Western New York,...

I have realized over the past couple years that once people hit midlife, we are all being sorted into various houses. Now I don’t know the exact...

The Call Button Chronicles I had fully intended to write about the generosity in the photography community. A very long time ago, I was gifted a...

I have been doing it for years but am really putting the pedal to the metal this month and challenging myself to try some new recipes for items we...

The tropical blast we had this past weekend sent my mind skittering down a familiar rabbit hole, back to a time when my primary occupation in life...

When setting up a new place of residence, we all want to make our home feel cozy and inviting, a concept the Danish have dubbed “hygge” (pronounced...

On a cold winter day, I was so proud to be Scandinavian. Not only do we have great food at holidays, but also good meaty ones we can enjoy all year...

Hard to believe that in the dead of winter—when the temperature is -25 and the wind is whipping around making everyone’s face hurt—it is time to...

January can be a hard month for people for many reasons, but there’s plenty to do on the homestead to keep us busy. With the mild start we had to...

There is just something about surviving the depths of winter that makes me want to fry donuts and consume them in large amounts with powdered sugar...

Cranberry Orange Bread I still have some fresh cranberries sitting in my fridge after the holidays and after canning about 40 quarts of cranberry...

I am a huge fan of Kendra Adachi’s podcast called The Lazy Genius and all the wisdom that comes from it. When her first book came out, “The Lazy...

As I was mumbling to myself this past weekend about how thoroughly sick I already was of winter, my mind wandered back to a time when I actually...

Soup just hits differently in the winter. The steam from the broth and herbs are soothing to the soul and a sick body, while the vegetables remind...