#ChristmasInJuly #recipe #food #latkes #writingprompt Originally posted in December 2010. Please don’t tell me I spelled this wrong. There are so many ways to spell Hanukkah, I couldn’t list them all without running out of letters. I’m not Jewish, but who can resist a holiday…

#ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt Originally posted in 2010 I made myself a tisane (“tea” not made with tea leaves). It tasted good, but I waited too long to make it. If I drink some when I first get the sniffles, it’s usually efficacious, but I thought the…

#freeshortstory #ChristmasInJuly #writingprompt This story appeared in the Southern Indiana Writers Group’s anthology, NOVEL INGREDIENTS, now out of print. THE GIFT by Marian Allen “Where is it?” My father roars from the living room. Good thing I’m not baking something that might fall. “Where’s what,…