My Old Fireplace

(Editor’s Note—From Christmas time last year.) In the living room of my house there is a beautiful old fireplace that I just dearly love. The first time I used that fireplace in the fall of 1994 it filled the whole house with smoke, due to the fact that the smoke...

My Old Fireplace

In the living room of my house there is a beautiful old fireplacethat I just dearly love. The first time I used that fireplace in thefall of 1994 it filled the whole house with smoke, due to the factthat the smoke shelf was not high enough. That ain’t no problem...

My Old Friend Duane

I had a friend who for many years was the chairman of the board of a fairly large food co-op in the south bay. The non-profit co-op ran two medium sized full-service grocery stores and had a pretty large, very loyal dues-paying membership. My friend, whose name was...

My own cooking story

(With all the talk of the cooking in Welcomes and on the Message Board recently, I thought it might be a good time to re-share my own cooking story. It’s one I shared nearly six years ago right here.) I Like to Cook A Lot A Lot January 2004 I enjoy cooking a lot a...

My shaving mug

 Daily Grist; “No nation can be great unless its sons and daughters have in them the quality to rise level to the needs of heroic days.”–Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, October 1918I have a shaving mug that one time was a...