Grandma's Secret Recipes for Light

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Make yourself at home. Sit back, laugh, cry, think, and thrive.

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Aug 3, 2023

Edith Agnew: I am never picking cotton again.

My father’s mother, Edith Agnew, grew up on a farm in Wedgefield, South Carolina in the 1920s. This was a farm of good and plenty; it...

Aug 2, 2023

Facey McTracey: A rosebush grows in Dumfries

My father is a gardener, a horticulturalist even….to say the least, he has a green thumb. When we moved to Dumfries, he tried in earnest...

Aug 1, 2023

Facey McTracey: City cat country cat

Facey McTracey was a beautiful gray cat with a fiery temper and keen sense of her hunter purpose. She was the first animal that I would...

Jul 31, 2023

Facey McTracey vs Nor: Here I come to save the daaaayyyy!

In the 1980’s, my father worked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. He went to work one day complaining that he had mice in his home, a...