I have this wonderful friend who is nothing less than an angel on earth. She’s been the one who has continually popped in and out of my life like a time traveler keeping tabs on those of us lucky e...

Earlier last week, I had picked up a couple sweet baking pumpkins along with a modest future Jack-O-Lantern. With a disc of pie crust left over from the apple-cranberry pies I looked around for var...

My friends are in the habit of throwing me cookbooks now and again as gifts. I got a copy of “The Food 52 Cookbook” by Hesser & Stubbs a few years ago. French ‘Peasant’ Beets has made it into m...

This post is the result of a personal request I got from the AHA to help a person who reached out on behalf of a younger person struggling with a diagnosis of a type of heart failure. It was writte...

Update 12-09-2012 An InfoPath developer provided me with some feedback that makes the PowerShell script in conjunction with the makecab process unnecessary. All that needs to be done is to build t...

This was a fantastic blended green drink. Ingredients 2 beets, 5 big kale leaves 1/2 lbs. of baby spinach 1 cup blueberries 1/2 cup mango 1 pear ...

This was made to go with the chili recipe that follows in a separate post. Nothing fancy but pretty good stuff. Cornbread Ingredients 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, plus butter for baki...

My cousins husband recently gave us some of the wonderfully crafted sauces and vinaigrettes he’s always posting on FaceBook. Having stocked the freezer with freshly baked pumpkin through October in...

This past weekend came with a chance to spend time with two people who are incredibly dear to me and to do something I said I’d never do again. When I was a teenager I entered the 9th-grade scienc...

June always reminds me of the protest that my fathers, decked out in drag, had the courage to bring to the public. A collection of “queers” written off by the world as a group of freaks and deviant...