Two-Crust Blackberry Cobbler (Crowd Size)

  This is the cobbler your family and guests will remember and ask for time and again! Blackberry Filling:  10-12 cups blackberries (3 quarts)    3 cups sugar  1 tsp. cinnamon  2 tsp. vanilla  1-cup flour, or use instant tapioca as a thickener. Mix together and let...

Life Lessons I’ve Learned from Applying Makeup

  Type-A folks aren’t fond of thinking they’ve wasted time doing anything. When I heard the average woman spends 474 days of her life slapping on lipstick and lining her eyes *applying makeup*, I had to search for purpose in all that mirror time. Here, then, is...

Skillet Cookery: Country-Style Squash

  This dish is so easy to make, and anyone who likes squash will love it. 3 to 4 slices chopped bacon 1 large onion sliced med. thin 2 med. tomatoes, chopped 6 medium-sized zucchini, sliced 2 yellow crookneck squash, sliced, (or use 8 small to med. zucchini squash...

Picasso Had His Moods, but Red Had His Moves (Revisited)

I made an ironclad discovery while viewing Picasso and the Age of Iron at the Modern Art Museum. Walking among the wire, bronze, sheet metal and iron exhibits such as Picasso’s Head of a Man and Gonzalez’s Woman with a Mirror, a steely thought gripped me. My gosh, I...