October 1, 2025                           Fall  in Cincinnati ….. the best place on earth?     It’s always a debate with me. Is Spring or Fall the best season? But right around mid- September, it’s always Fall, especially in the beautiful Midwest. I was just out in the real West visiting my niece for her 50th Birthday. It seems like whenever I’ve gone to Denver it always looks about the same, except for winter. Brown barren land punctuated by a flurry of trees, big blue skies

December 4, 2025   A new Holiday Perspective  Christmas. Some people love it. Some people don’t. I am always vaguely disgruntled when I see Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween. We barely had time to count how many pumpkin cookies we had left at the bakery. But the rush is always on. A panicky feeling takes over that perhaps I too should be in a hurry or I’ll miss out on something.  I don’t think choosing to do something because it saves time is necessarily the b

November 22, 2024 Recently, a young woman from Cincinnati Magazine called to let me know that they were writing an article about our...

January 31, 2025              I recently learned that the original meaning of the word poem meant to make . It’s no wonder that when I...

When I saw the cupcakes Megan had finished decorating for the bakery, I was thrilled that I had caught her in time for a picture. Look!...