"Made From Scratch," by Jenna Woginrich (Storey Publishing. $21) ...more

November 30, 2008

Alert citizens residing within the cozy confines of Pasco County can be forgiven if they are not caught up in, oh, what was it MSNBC.com called it? Ah, here it is: "Beltway Buzzes Over Obama Transition." ...more

November 7, 2008

Recent studies show that when you check on how happy people are at various ages, the elderly generally come out ahead. ...more

July 15, 2008

This time of year has a special place in my heart. Every season has its own characteristics and I wouldn't want to change any of them, even the so-called bleak midwinter. But right now, at the height of a new spring season, I feel that exhilaration and contentment common to gardeners and horticulturists around the world. ...more

May 11, 2008

By Saturday morning, the verbal dust had long since settled at the Lee County Sports Complex, where the Twins held their first full-squad workout of the spring. The day before, Minnesota outfielder Delmon Young had passed the first test of what he insists is a newfound professional contentment. ...more

February 24, 2008

If you look at the history of the women's movement, it appears to ebb and flow. Intense periods of protests - such as the 1920s, when women won the right to vote - are followed by dormant periods of seeming contentment with the status quo. The 1960s and '70s was a feminist heyday, marked by Betty Freidan, the birth control pill, Roe v. Wade and the drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. I was a young woman in my 20s then, living in Philadelphia and, later, Los Angeles, when women earned 49 cents for every man's dollar. I remember the rallies, consciousness-raising sessions and National Organization of Women meetings, selfishly hoping to be the beneficiary of improved job opportunities and equal pay. ...more

January 26, 2008

Oct. 20 marks the beginning of a new era in Pasco County because a needed civil rights organization, the Pasco County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is having its official coming-out party. ...more

October 14, 2007