When we saw this recipe on Mary Lovstad’s blog, Farm Girl Cookin’, we could practically smell the cinnamony goodness! We know you’ll love it. In a desperate search for a 4-H food project for our county fair, my mother suggested I make my grandmother’s Cinnamon Bread recipe. As a lazy teen, this seemed like a …
If you had a grandmother, you’ll love this story from Kate Campbell. Read more from Kate on her blog. Before falling asleep, we’d hold hands with the twin beds pushed together, blankets mounded in the divide. Across that narrow separation, my grandmother told stories of when she was young, about times when she taught …
Helene Hirsch Wingens looks back on the good, the bad, and – mostly – the ugly of raising three small children. Read more from Helene on her blog. I’m a huge fan of Anna Quindlen’s writing. I recently stumbled upon an excerpt from her book, Loud and Clear, which was published in 2004. I was in the “thick” …
Plenty of little girls idolize their moms, but Adela Crandall Durkee’s sweet story reminds us that dads are pretty cool too! Read more from Adela on her blog. When I was a little girl, I really, really wanted to be like dad. Perhaps it was because dads went off to work. Perhaps it was because dads, are, well, …
My father died in June 10th, 2013, six days before Father’s Day. He was 89 and he passed away smiling, lying in his own bed under his favorite pale yellow coverlet with his children at his side. We should all be so lucky to leave the earth the way my father did. As Father’s Day …
