By Jerry Gervase It finally happened to me. I’m dining on a burger and fries at an outdoors restaurant. I’ve been looking forward to the burger. No matter how I try I just can’t match a good restaurant burger at home. The fries are looking TV-food
By Rick Kiernan As we go thru Life, we sometimes fail to notice the very subtle manner in which “numbers” have come to saturate our daily schedule. Perhaps, the “first” numbers we can remember as youngsters was our Home Address Number and certainly, the Home Telephone Number
By Allen Herman My Dad was born in the Ukraine. My mother was born in Russia. When I was growing up they rarely mentioned their childhoods in Europe. It was only when the few surviving members of their families trickled in to America after the War
I don’t deny it… I LOVE blueberries and can bake or cook with them at the drop of a hat. I’ve just started freezing them so they’re available for use when the mood so moves me. I just wash them, drain them and put them
Life is good. Yum Yum Donuts has reopened. Bed Bath and Beyond’s twenty percent coupons are now hitting our mailbox. Home Goods has reopened and malls are again welcoming shoppers. Traffic has picked up and people are beginning to be “out and about” again. Please remember
‘Tis the season for berries; all kinds of berries. We’re a little partial to raspberries. You can buy them in bulk and use them to your heart’s content. You might even freeze them for nibbling on when you’ve got a yen for something tart and
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde One of my all time favorite movie scenes is from the 1942 flick “Now, Voyager.” Glamorous Bette Davis is with dashing Paul Henreid. He lights two cigarettes, inhales, and then
By Allen Herman I have a confession. While growing up I never saw eye to eye with my father. If I wanted to go South to Baltimore he wanted to go North to New York. If I was voting the Democratic slate he was sure to
By Jerry Gervase I begin my day with a cup of black coffee. It is a morning ritual that hasn’t changed in the better part of a century. That’s enough coffee to float an armada of ships bringing beans from Brazil. Though my morning habit hasn’t
Please check this section next month as events and activities open up onsite. For now, go to websites and social media spots to learn what's happening with your favorite clubs and organizations. You can see that most libraries are alive and well, and open (online)
