Dear Honey Run Friends, The Mother’s Day holiday turns 100 this year after Woodrow Wilson signed a measure making the second Sunday in May, the official holiday for the United States in 1914. This holiday honoring mothers is one with mixed emotions. In an ideal world where every mother would love, nurture, and protect her […]
Life in the kitchen can be difficult. There is an absolute need for organization; the ability to multitask is a must. Mistakes are rarely tolerated, and when one person has a bad day, more often than not, the rest of the kitchen goes down as well. It is a well-oiled machine that needs to be maintained. It […]
Dear Honey Run Friends, Why do we love the underdog? I think it is because of their story. How many of us can remember the Cinderella team from the 2000 NCAA tournament? I would venture to guess you would have to Google the results to remember. What about that child who has a broken home […]
March is a strange month. There are those days of incredible weather that bring a definite sense of optimism, but those are almost always followed by a week of frigid temperature, accompanied by snow. As we make our way into April, however, there is a more lingering optimism. Flowers begin to bloom, the birds begin to […]
Selecting and planting plants native to our region is one of my gardening resolutions this year. Recently I read Douglas Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home; it raises very good questions and arguments regarding native versus alien plant selections and the importance of increasing and sustaining wildlife in our own backyards, and in the grounds of our […]
Dear Honey Run Friends, Learning to see the good through the storms in life has been challenging for me, and I am willing to bet it is the same for many of you. I, like most of us in the Midwest, am sick and tired of gray skies and bone chilling weather. But then I […]
