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This is not one of my usual entries. Rather it has to do with your favorite Christmas dishes. If you have one and would like to share it with others, please feel free to post it as a comment to this entry so others may read it and perhaps use it this holiday season. Comments are public. Simple as that. Merry Christmas – John.

There comes a time when the torch gets passed, and the new generation cooks the Thanksgiving turkey. Mine was yesterday, when we all traveled a hundred miles to my oldest daughter's apartment where she and her new husband hosted their first married Thanksgiving feast. Both families--ours and her husband's--around the dinner table, and for two hours before that watching this lovely and loving...

Grandma Rudy just about wrote my first term paper… I was in the 11th grade and I had to write a paper on the Great Depression. We didn’t have computers or the internet then, and, our set of encyclopedias only went to the letter “C” since Dad stopped shopping at the ACME supermarket that year. That weekend we had our usual Sunday dinner at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s, so...