An unfortunate local purchasing experience inspires this week’s column. I sent my husband to the health food store to buy Hungarian sweet paprika. What the store sold was, for all intents and purposes, a generic version. The label merely said “paprika.” The salesperson told him paprika is all the same – one of those “mostly […]

Homemade Whole Wheat Cheddar Cheese Crackers A parent should be close by when using a heat source and food processor. These homemade cheesy crackers will remind you of those bright orange store-bought ones, but you can’t beat this whole wheat version for a healthy tastier alternative. This is a great rain or snow day activity! […]

Last week was a lesson in learning to go with the flow and remember to allow what needs to happen, happen. Here’s a recap. Because my tomatoes were a bust this year, I bought a case of deliciously sweet Emery Farms tomatoes at Berry Fruit Farm in Livermore Falls to be soon made into a […]

Savory Tex- Mex Corn Pancakes These savory pancakes are a fun new twist at breakfast but also make a great meal anytime! Sub maple syrup for the salsa for a different kind of sweet pancake! Time: 20 minutes; Serves: 2 Ingredients: 3/4 cup flour 1/2 cup cornmeal 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda […]

  And just like that, summer collapsed into fall. – Oscar Wilde It would be honest to say that Oscar Wilde’s words regarding fall are nearly my favorite way to describe how I feel about this particular change of the season. The others seem to be gradual, but it feels like summer, all at once, […]

“Tasseography”, or tea leaf reading, is specialized fortune-telling done by interpreting patterns in leftover, used tea leaves. They look for special patterns or symbols. My great-grandmother was a tea leaf reader. I didn’t know this until my teenage years when my grandmother shared a story about knowing that my mother had been in a motorcycle […]

NO. LIVERMORE — At the North Livermore Baptist Church Sept. 12 service the congregation was welcomed by Pastor Bonnie Higgins at 9:30 a.m. to begin the service. The Call to Worship was read and the Invocation/Lord’s Prayer was recited. The hymns that were sung was “There is Power in the Blood”, “The Church’s One Foundation”, […]

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” (The Lorax) A couple of weeks ago, our family took the opportunity to visit Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. It was a fabulous day spent chalking up six miles of walking trails and through gardens, weaving in and out […]

September has arrived with a gentle breeze and lower temps in the 70s. For many, September signals the end of summer. I’m still clinging to the knowledge that summer doesn’t end until it ends, no matter the date on the calendar or the number of pumpkin spice lattes sold. Some September days will tease us […]