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I just got my new stove delivered today. It will probably take me a month to figure it out. Kinda like my radio in my car. I need to get the book out every time I need to set something on it. I got one of the new Electrolux ranges with the glass top. It is all digital touch controls. And looks like the controls in the cockpit of a 747 with all the lights. When you first see it you wonder...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....

My stove got a workout over the past week and half for the holidays. I've been an empty-nester...

A friend of mine wrote to me over Christmas, and described her year in review as the year that she broke up with her boyfriend, her dog died, and she'd had a root canal. But, she added, if she was looking at it through my eyes, she'd say she now had the opportunity for unfettered dating, she could travel without worrying about finding a kennel, and she still had all her original teeth. I...

It's difficult to forget just how old I am. As if those annual reminders called birthdays aren't enough, every time I turn around there is another reminder. Hardly a day goes by that I'm not reminded that I've racked up over seven decades of living. When people talk about presidents, they talk about FDR, Truman and Ike like they were in office about the same century as George Washington. The...

We have an ice box that doesn’t make ice. We buy ice at the store and put it in the ice container that should be holding the perfectly-formed ice cubes coming from the machine. That’s wrong, I think. It broke a long time ago, so we kind of forgot that we had one. That’s wrong too. In my bathroom, if you tug on the bath towel that hangs over the towel bar, the bar itself will come...

There was a mouse in my stove, and this time I vowed "no mercy!" Yeah, right. Like we haven't...

We're told that as we age, to expect short term memory problems. Well ok, up to a point, but...

Because slow cookers work at low temperatures with lids on, there is hardly any liquid lost during cooking. With most cooking methods, the water in meats and vegetables turns to steam and evaporates. But with a slow cooker, there's nowhere for the steam to go--it just collects on the lid and bastes the food. So if you're inventing your own slow cooker recipes or adapting your favorite...