Year: 2002

Santa Runs into the 21st Century

Letters to Santa are down, as they have been the past few years, and now most of the mail received at the North Pole, including email, is unwanted spam. The board of directors … Read more

3 Sisters

Swedish Pecan Cookies

From Mary Ann Johnson, via our Aunt Adelia (both from Lindsborg, KS) comes this excellent recipe for Swedish Pecan Cookies. A big hit when first served at a family gathering in October, it’s … Read more

Eye Candy for the Holidays

From Mena’s dollarshort site comes an excellent link to a site that has over 30 different full-screen panoramic photos (Quicktime required). Many of these rich, beautiful, inspiring images rotate up and down in … Read more

The California Coast from the Air

A variety of things had to come together to realize this dream, but once they did, the results are amazing! You can easily spend hours looking at these fascinating arial photos of the … Read more

Let It Be

That’s Yoko Ono’s advice to Sir Paul McCartney, who is keen to change the song writing credits on songs he primarily composed. He recently released an album of songs performed during a 2002 … Read more

My Mom

66 years young is too young to die. Yet, that’s what happened to my mother, Pat. After fighting cancer for 2 years she passed away on December 9th. Though we lived half a … Read more

Glass Pens, Inktober 9th

Rubber Biscuit

Remember the Rubber Biscuit song that Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi performed in the Blues Brothers movie? Who knew that the hard to understand, seemingly nonsensical song had real lyrics!? The Chips – … Read more