I was raised in a section of Pittsburgh, Pa., known as Oakland. Throughout my childhood, an important building was St. Paul’s Cathedral, an enormous Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic church. It has dozens of large stained glass windows and a monumental Von Beckenrath pipe organ. My family ...
Maurita the Crochet Lady here. This month you can get all tied up making scrunchie hair ties. I use regular worsted weight yarn, H 5.0mm hook, and “ouchless” hair ties that do not have a metal fastener. The first scrunchie has loops, and the second looks like a rounded star. These can ...
In a previous letter, I stated no one agrees with the U.S. Supreme Court decisions 100% of the time … a statement I stand by. In a recent Supreme Court “bad” decision, the court ruled states could redistrict before the next census (in 2030). Thus, several states “red” and ...
If you are of a certain age, the sights and sounds of your childhood summers were quite different from what we experience now. Remember sitting on the porch swing watching lightning bugs in the yard? (Fireflies, if you’re feeling sophisticated.) Maybe an adult would run and get a jar with ...
Finally, nice weather is here with hot days and heavy rain, although I don’t think many feel that they are lucky with the rain that we had a few days ago. How do you like it? Should we complain? We'd better think back in the winter when we had all the snowy days and thank our lucky stars for ...
When someone tells you that you look nice you say, thank you. What do you say when they compliment you on what you mean to them? When they tell you how you’ve helped them through tough times, how should you respond? I have a few friends who have lived through much harder things than I have ...
