One of the joys of living not too far from San Francisco is that family and friends find it no hardship to visit there. We also have fami...

Two days ago we hit the half way mark - the winter solstice. We have reached the darkest day of the year after that day more light each d...

There is nothing quite like the taste of a fresh, crisp, very tart cranberry. I hear they grow in bogs in New England, but I find them ev...

Well, the GI situation has encouraged me to try some diet changes, including going caffeine free, dairy free and gluten free, plus no red...

The last six or seven months have been some of the worst of my life as far as health goes. UTIs, the flu, surgery on my eyes, amoebic dys...

Sometime yesterday when I wasn't watching the number of all time page views for this blog passed 500,000! I started in October of 20...

I was working at a drugstore in the cosmetics department when a hair coloring company found the model Cheryl Tiegs and had her be the ima...

In ancient Roman myth, Janus was the god of beginnings and endings, which is one reason that they named January after him. Now that we ar...

The December 2012 issue of Saveur Magazine has a selection of recipes using white chocolate, including the cover recipe for white choc...

The drive to my friend's home to make mosaics a few days ago took me along many of the roads I drove to work for over 20 years, out i...

When I was younger I took it for granted that visitors would always enjoy something sweet for dessert or as an afternoon (or midnight) snac...