daughter | Everything about Gingerbread
Jan 05 2010
I ate a few more cookies during the holidays than I should have, and now I’m weighing a few more pounds than I’d like. Still, I’m starting the year off writing about what I might put next into the cookie jar. OK
Dec 28 2009
Several years ago, my daughter, Lauren, and I followed the Food Network’s Paula Deen’s recipe for Gingerbread Pumpkin Trifle for a holiday get-together. Not only was the delicacy beautiful, but it was well-received by our Christmas guests. So, this …
Dec 26 2009
THE VILLAGES — Irene Osgood used to go sledding and ice skating back in her younger days in New Hampshire, later passing on the tradition to her daughter, Sandy Charpentier. Now Osgood has kept those memories alive on a smaller scale. For more than …
Dec 19 2009
Priscilla, a single mother and a short-order waitress with bad taste in men, is raising her daughter, Rainey Dae, a 16-year-old with Down syndrome. Then there’s her other daughter, Janie Doe, a precocious 8-year-old and Rainey’s constant …
Dec 19 2009
ANGLETON — Sue Mann relies on family traditions to get her into the Christmas spirit and so far, it has worked like a charm. The Richwood resident helps decorate her home and that of her daughter and celebrates with her twin grandchildren, Cassie …
Dec 17 2009
After reading Marytkelly’s excellent post on Gingerbread House from Hell, I was reminded that I used to do one of these every year while Daughter was growing up. So in an attempt to make Daughter’s visits more than “brief” (which she will …
Dec 11 2009
ROCK ISLAND — It is a house the community built, and once again it will serve to bring a degree of independence to a family. Habitat for Humanity Quad Cities announced on Friday that Alexis Gluck and her daughter, Cecilia, 4, will move into the …
Nov 16 2009
Mary Margaret Howard Weltmer Fox, age 90, of Great Bend, died Nov. 13 at Central Kansas Medical Center of congestive heart failure following a long illness.
Oct 19 2009
This time two years ago, my daughter Rosie was getting used to life as a “kindergartener” in an American elementary school. This was actually the second time she’d begun her education. The first time had been the September before, when, aged four-and …
Oct 13 2009
On the first day of Durga Puja, we ran from a dance class to a school picnic to a Girl Scouts meeting to my college roommate’s wedding. On Karva Chauth, my husband took our daughter to ballet, while I hurried from work to a henna appointment. We met …
