#4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, went to visit my future son-in-law, the equally amazing Michael Ignacio. Naturally, she was on the lookout for doors for me. One of the places they visited was a haunted orphanage-turned-winery, the Belvoir Winery in Liberty, Missouri. HISTORY OF…

You know how somebody says or does something that almost demands a sharply worded response or a cautionary speech you know will be useless, but you manage to restrain yourself? When my mother would come home and tell me one of these incidents in which…

The interwebs are alive with sheet pan recipes. I’ve seen a few of these, and I’m fully in favor. For one thing, I can put the sheet together in advance on nail night and just shove it in the oven with no danger to my…