Thanksgiving Traditions: Ginger Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Traditions can be started any time, and last year, using a recipe provided by Meg, my DIL, I changed my Thanksgiving sweet potato tradition from lightly candied with brown sugar, to ginger mashed. The pilgrims didn’t have ginger, but we do, and these potatoes were scrumptious, with the added the benefit of less sugar and [...]

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2009 Themed Reading Challenge

I don’t participate in many reading challenges because I tend to be a “mood reader”, picking titles from what topic strikes my fancy at the time. But the rules of this challenge, sponsored by Caribou’s Mom [  Themed Reading Challenge ], work for me.
This is a six month challenge designed to help readers clear books [...]

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Monday Morning Poem: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
(1874-1963)

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