As I sit here at my computer, it’s late April and it’s snowing. I’m not a big fan of winter in the best of years, but this last cold season lasted way too long for me. Over the last few months I’ve had to deal with both my mother’s death and my father’s debilitating illness [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by EJ McFall
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I can’t believe another winter has come and gone. Time flies! Julia has just turned 4, and Luke is 15 months. I’m looking out of my office window right now, taking in the bright magenta blossoms on my flowering crabapple I planted when we built our house. It smells like heaven. Something about this time [...]

Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Kelly Clark Baugher
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Exclusive Cocktails : from the recipes of Usher’s Hotel. Sydney, 1933.

Many readers and writers love collecting books, both old and new. It’s something I enjoy doing in my spare time. I search the Internet, and browse in bookshops. More often than not I stumble across something interesting. Ephemeral items from the past can have some [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Pat Turner
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