Category : Dessert

One chilly afternoon last November, my neighbor Ellen stopped by with a warm tin of something sweet. She was helping organize the fall bake sale...

Not long ago, after helping clean up the local roadside trails with a few retired neighbors, we all gathered at my friend Loretta’s place for...

On a quiet Friday afternoon in late spring, I stopped by the community center where a few of us retirees volunteer to teach kids cooking...

The kitchen was a mess of laughter and sticky fingers last Saturday when my grandson came over for his sleepover. He had one request: “Grandma,...

Last summer, after a morning of scrubbing the sidewalks in front of the community library with my neighbors (a small tradition we keep before our...

A few winters ago, I spent a snowed-in weekend at my daughter’s house in the mountains of North Carolina. The roads were glazed with ice,...