Due to this and that unfortunate circumstance, including divorce and disagreements among the grownups, I didn’t get to grow up in close contact with my mother’s birth mother, Lily Green Leister. Mom’s stepmother was Grandma to me, and all I could have wished for in…

Ordinarily, I would have used my beloved Instant Pot for these, but the only ribs I could get were long-boned, so I used my slow cooker. If you have a slow cooker but don’t have slow cooker liners, do yourself a favor and get some.…

My Deal Me In deck dealt me a heart, which means the marvelous Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt. I chose one of her Drabbles (100-word story). She tells me most of these were written years ago, but they all show glimpses of her current masterwork. If you…