Elizabeth's Writing StudioQuirky holiday menus for family dinner fun! This is an expansion and fine tuning of my mom’s practice of celebrating big and little holidays at meal time, giving us insight into different cultures, exposing us to new foods and saving her sanity by making dinner fun.
We planned our party to celebrate the launching of the 1st Atomic Submarine for January 24th. Invited a few friends but nobody could come this time, so the kids and I had fun making our ‘sub’ sandwiches… ‘Dunking’ our veggies in hummus and ranch dip… enjoying root beer ‘floats’ and mini donut ‘life preservers’ for […]
I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that the family Christmas gift project Mom and I have been working on is finally available for sale – and Mom’s illustrations are delightful! I hope you enjoy it too… Click HERE to Preview & Order
This post is to announce that my mom and I are working together to come up with an illustrated cookbook of our quirky holiday menus for family dinner fun. Look for more info soon…
You’ve probably heard the adage “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” The original quote from about 1866 was “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” You can find out more about their health benefits here. But that’s not why you should eat one today, […]
What do spheres, Archimedes, calculus, The Simpsons, physics, Star Trek, pyramids, and Carl Sagan’s novel Contact all have in common? Pi, otherwise known as 3.14… Pi is the exact ratio representing that the circumference of a circle is slightly more than three times as long as its diameter. One of the oldest and most important […]
How did an early Christian blessing and distributing of candles day, known as Candlemas, switch to a day for a groundhog to predict the weather? Apparently February 2 is considered the middle of winter. Since people were hoping that the last half of winter would be short, they received candles blessed by priests and […]
The USS Nautilus was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine; namesake of the submarine in Jules Verne’s Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the fourth Navy ship to bear that name, she was launched on January 21, 1954, and broke records in how long she could remain submerged, how quickly she could travel underwater and […]
Cinnamon is one of my favorite smells associated with Christmas. I enjoy luring loved ones away from their gifts or out of bed on Christmas morning with freshly baked yummies. But if you’ve stayed up too late wrapping gifts or watching the Norad Santa Tracker the night before, you might want something easy to prepare […]
The 4th of July always makes me think of summer backyard picnics at Grandma Caldwell’s Meadville, Pennsylvania home. Whether braving a scratch to find a ripe raspberry, riding the mower over the immense lawn, avoiding bees in the attic to seek hidden treasures, hunting fireflies, or fishing on Tamarac Lake, we always seemed to be […]
One day I told my kids that I believe in saving the world after expecting them to recycle something, rather than throw it away. They rolled their eyes and gave me the ‘You’re weird, Mom’ look. But making one small change at a time can make a big difference. So let’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. For me, […]