Archive for December, 2010
Bye-Bye 2010. Hello 2011. Ernest Dempsey’s thoughts
2010 is leaving. After a few hours, it’ll be gone. Really? Let’s ask ourselves, can a moment, let alone an entire 12-month period, suddenly vanish as the clock ticks 12 midnight? Boy! That’s almost like accusing the year of escaping in the middle of the night like a thief after stealing something from our lives. [...]
Holidays with Pop atop the Snowy Bluffs
Quiet, quiet Christmas Eve Day morning as the birds wake up on top of our bluffs above the Mississippi. They flitter and twitter around the Ruth E. Thompson memorial bird feeders. A nod to one of my mother’s most passionate pass times. Snow, snow, snow. Even the river is frozen. We used to skate on [...]
Riehl ties for grand prize: Womens Memoirs kitchen scraps & holidays
Well, gosh! Heather Summerhayes Cariou and I tied as Grand Prize Winners for Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett’s Womens Memoirs Memoir Writing Contest Featuring Favorite Holidays. Heather Summerhayes Cariou’s story “The Sweet Ghost of Christmas Past” is published today on Womens Memoirs My story “Passage into Elderhood: Happy 60th Birthday” will be published soon. This [...]
Triple Lemon Cake Recipe. Like lemon? This is the cake for you.
During the holidays sweets abound. Let’s say you’re not much of a baker. Let’s say you’re pressed for time. But, you want to take something home baked to that potluck, not something store bought. (“Store bought is a phrase from my childhood since we made everything from scratch at home.) After all–as the Pillsbury Doughboy [...]
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