Category: Family

Her-Noni’s Italian Anise Cookies

My batch of Italian Anise Cookies from Thanksgiving 2015     You will find recipes all over for these cookies. Heck, you might find this exact recipe (my great-grandmother couldn’t have been the only one to bake them this way).…

Her-Noni’s Italian Anise Cookies

You will find recipes all over for these cookies. Heck, you might find this exact recipe (my great-grandmother couldn’t have been the only one to bake them this way). But lately I keep seeing the same variation of this recipe…

Remembering Harry

The day before Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year. When I was working, I’d try my hardest to get the day off (and most places that I’ve worked usually made it a half a day anyway).…

A Saturday

I spent the afternoon alone with my 80 year-old, legally blind father. He insisted on raking and bagging leaves because in another week our town has leaf pick up and he didn’t want to wait for someone to help him…