Our youngest daughter, Eliza, has a slew of nicknames: Lizzie, E-lizzie, Little Bit, Nugget, Tiny Tot, Eliza J – to name a few. My husband and I have one name for her that we share just between the two of us, P.W. No, it does not stand for Pioneer Woman from the cookbook writing, blogging, […]

I know I am telling my age here, but . . . I grew up under Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” Campaign. It was the First Lady’s aim to teach school age children to say “no” to drugs. At times I felt that it was my parents’ mantra as well. No matter what I asked, […]

“There was a snail called Herbert, who often got in trouble. Forgetting that he was a snail, he did things on the double. He’d crash through spider webs, with crickets he’d collide. ‘Till one day, Herbert’s father sat his speeding son aside –  ‘Have patience, have patience, don’t be in such a hurry.  When you […]