I’m writing this year in review as encouragement to myself (and to you) to blog, and blog more. We did a lot of great things this year, and when I sat down to review the year at once I can see more easily what a joy 2018 was. It didn’t start out that way, though.…

The weather finally turned cool this week and I personally felt the need to mark the passing of summer with the MOST possible fall-like meal ever: Pumpkin Chili. Everyone in our family gobbled it up! I hope you’ll try it soon and let me know what you think of it. Update – I entered this…

Since I was only going to be in town for one night, then leaving the next morning, I didn’t really get to see much of Grand Rapids…which was my mistake, because it looks amazing! I don’t know what I expected, but it certainly wasn’t what I found in Grand Rapids. Here are 8 things I’ll…