Grandma’s Sunshine Cookies
I can still picture my Grandma Martha’s pies, cookies and cakes cooling in her bright tiny kitchen. She never used a mixer, she keep everything simple. This cookie recipe was served mostly for special occasions, pretty, easy, yummy. Grandma Martha’s Sunshine Cookies 1 cup of sugar 1/4 cup unsalted butter (room temp) 1 large egg (room temp) 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 2 1/4 cups flour 1/2 cup milk 1/2 tsp baking soda zest from 1...
Getting from A to B+ gracefully
People say I am an A-type personality, I say at this point I am a B+. A life long designer of most everything from my doll clothes to ad campaigns to Sunday dinner. Yes, I picked out my parents’ house paint colors in grade school and forced them to listen to my critique of album cover designs while they were listening to music. My dad always told me I lived to a different beat, which I happily ignored. Now 50 some years later I...
Henry
My pack member Henry passed 3.3.2015 at 4:29 am, he had been ill. (You will hear a lot about Henry later.) We walked together for years, three to five miles a day. Let’s get this straight he walked me, I considered him smarter than me and he knew we needed our exercise. About two weeks before that day I noticed he was acting differently, a slow decline, two trips to the vet, and then he just closed his eyes and left us. That day...