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I know it doesn’t feel like fall….yet. We all know cooler weather is coming so it’s good to have an arsenal of recipes for the cozy comfort foods that warm us from the inside out. Betty Crocker to the rescue! “Soup, Stew & Chili” (2004, General Mills, Minneapolis) is a good place to start...
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting
I’m in a rut. Sometimes I wonder what I’m doing here.
Oh, yeah?
Do you ever wonder that?
Sure, I wonder what you’re doing here, every day.
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. I’...
Dear Savvy Senior,
Because of chronic arthritis, I have a very difficult time going up and down stairs anymore and am interested in purchasing a stair lift for my two-story house. Can you recommend some good companies?
Arthritic Andy
Dear Andy,
Yes, of course! A good home stair lift is a great...
The more I write about cookbooks, the more I understand that the best cooking instruction is not found between two glossy covers with dishes created by famous chefs and television personalities. Those of us who really like to cook (and to eat!) want tried and true recipes that we can rely on day...
When someone holding a flyswatter says, “Don’t move!”
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting
My wife is always correcting me.
I told her, “Judy, quit correcting me.”
I thought your wife’s name was Andrea.
You’re as bad as she is.
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce...
Dear Savvy Senior,
I spend a lot of time online and love the convenience of paying bills, shopping, and keeping up with my grandkids on Facebook and Instagram. But a few months ago, my computer was infected with malware, and I just found out some cyber crook opened up a credit card using my...
North Iowa and Southern Minnesota are so close we can shake hands. Our friends in Glenville, Minnesota love to cook and eat as well as we do. The Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church celebrated 100 years of good cooking and Christian worship in 1994. The cookbook they created found its way to me...
Here we sit sweating it out under a heat dome. It’s supposed to get hot in an Iowa summer, but like this? One heat dome after another. Then a shower just in the nick of time. They say it’s a sign of climate change — that seasonal extremes like a hot August day become more extreme, and linger....
Echoes from the Loafers’ Club Meeting
Hot enough for you?
No, I wish it were hot enough to melt the soles of my shoes as I walked.
Well, at least it’s not a dry heat.
Driving by Bruce’s drive
I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. When I asked...
Dear Savvy Senior,
I take several medications for multiple health conditions and the prices keep going up, even with my Medicare prescription drug insurance. Can you recommend any tips that can help cut my costs?
Tapped Out Tina
Dear Tina,
The high cost of prescription drugs is an ongoing...