April 3, 2024, 6:08am Clark County Life
My daughter is home for spring break and I’m having a ball spoiling her. She’s so much fun to buy things for because she has very specific tastes and I love the rush I get when I absolutely nail it, finding just the right thing to delight her. She’s also… Read story
March 27, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
I have made many things over the past few years, but I’ve never attempted a dairy-free, gluten-free and (virtually) sugar-free dessert before, that’s for sure. I realize that many of my recipes exist outside of what could strictly be called “healthy,” and are far afield of any current food trends.… Read story
March 19, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Personal growth can be so overrated. What I’d like to do is stop growing for a little while and just rest. I’d like to lay me down in some green pastures (as the well-known scripture says) and a few still waters wouldn’t hurt, either. Read story
March 13, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life
When I ruminate on the fact that I have a 21-year-old daughter, it makes me feel a bit woozy, like I’m standing on the roof of a skyscraper. I can see the view but I just can’t believe it’s real. Nevertheless, there she is, walking around and being competent and… Read story
March 6, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life
I never get tired of chicken. I fix a chicken dish once a week — usually roasted chicken thighs with various seasonings, or a recipe I call That Chicken Thing (chicken cooked in a covered casserole dish with vegetables). My daughter, bless her cotton socks, got tired of her mom’s… Read story
February 28, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Life
I’ve always wanted to try a slow cooker cobbler, an assemble-it-and-walk-away dessert that bypasses the fuss of pans and ovens. However, I’m not convinced that it’s the best way to go, especially since a cobbler cooked in the oven is ready two or three hours sooner. Who wants to put… Read story
February 21, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life
One of the drawbacks of having a broken shoulder (acquired in my driveway during the January ice storm) is that I can’t drive. It’s just me and the cat at home during the week and, honestly, the cat has shown me no sympathy whatsoever. I eagerly await the weekends, when… Read story
February 7, 2024, 6:03am Clark County Life
It’s February. It’s cold. It’s rainy. And it’s also really, really rainy. (I thought I would use this introductory paragraph to state the obvious.) What is the antidote to this relentless dreariness? A sunny Greek vacation in a whitewashed cottage overlooking the azure sea and your own private infinity pool?… Read story
January 31, 2024, 6:02am Food
My mother was crazy about a homemade cookie that she called cowboy bars. They had all her favorite things: oats, cinnamon, pecans, coconut and three kinds of chips — chocolate, peanut butter and my absolute favorite, butterscotch. She’d press the dough into a big glass baking dish and then cut… Read story
January 24, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Life
What do you do when life gives you lemons? Make soup, of course. We’ll get to that. But first, let’s discuss the lemons. It’s not so much that life gave them to me but more that I went looking for them. Life, astonished at my foolishness, said, “You want lemons?… Read story
