Tag: Tip of My Iceberg
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What Are The Ingredients?

While they’re young, children who are interested in cooking, baking, and any type of food preparation should be encouraged in learning the skills. As we get older, cooking often becomes boring because we too often fall into patterns that are easy and will work for whoever the meal is being prepared for. At ten, Brooklyn…
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Don’t Cut Me Out!

We have all types of kitchen knives. They’ve been one of those items that we’ve slowly accumulated over our years of marriage. I don’t believe we’ve ever gotten rid of any. I come up with the reasoning that it could be used for something sometime. Maybe. When knives get old, they get dull, which suited…
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“I Have A Dream”

photo courtesy of Unseen Histories on Unsplash Growing up, my dream was to own my own pony, which became owning a horse as I got older. My Dad, who’d been raised on a farm, wished he could get me what I wanted, but it wasn’t possible. Living in the Chicago suburbs wasn’t conducive to keeping…
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Step Away From The Car

photo courtesy of Alex Chernenko on Unsplash I don’t enjoy driving. I used to enjoy it when I learned how. Being behind the wheel was a new sense of power and control. As a teenager, I hadn’t had a whole lot of that. Driving meant I had to pay attention to where I was, where…
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Not In Kansas Anymore!

I’m particularly fond of old movies. When producers try to update them, I’m often disappointed with the addition of computer graphics and other up-to-date gizmos to make a movie more exciting for our current screen-obsessed culture. One of my all-time favorite movies is “The Wizard of Oz”, starring Judy Garland as the small-town girl from…