This isn't your regular red velvet cake recipe. This is the original red velvet cake recipe. I've been making this flag cake for fi...

"Dear! I think you're the Easter Bunny!" Grama Lundgren used to have an Easter Egg Hunt in her gigantic front yard for 24 gra...

Lucy "Hey, Kids! Have I ever told you about the diamond clip?" Opa and I had a Conference Party and I decided to teach a little f...

Our 8' x 35' home, and our VW Bug, 1969 As newlyweds we never noticed how cold it got in our trailer at night. Christmas morning we ...

Some folks are just naturally merry. Take St. Nicholas, for instance. Can you imagine him complaining about the cold? Or feeling sorry for h...

After hours of togetherness, Mary thought for just a moment about flipping her family the bird. (Now, now . . . you are not related to a bu...

The Opi's went south for the holiday. First Stop: Trump International Hotel Las Vegas . L uxury room--$108--no casino, directly across t...

"What's cooking, Oma?" I've got a Halloween party brewing, but some little ghouls can't come. So I invited them over a...

Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor "I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween." Any cool, easy ideas ...

Jake and Emmie 2009 Being someone's mummy is scary stuff! (I have forty-one years of experience.) I was recently asked for my best advic...

Photo by Holgen Leue Great-great Grandpa John Bagley was only eighteen when he left his family in eastern Canada. He joined with the Mormo...

Looking straight down from our balcony I looked out my window, and what did I see? People sleeping underneath my tree! Thousands of people...

Spectators at the Parade by Norman Rockwell "I want a little piece of peace." People go lots of places in search of peace: a mou...

"Quite often we look at a task and think there is no way we can do what needs to be done. That happens because we look at ourselves whe...

"I dare you, while there is still time, to have a magnificent obsession." --William Danforth