Did you know that Nebraska was the 17th state out of the 48 total in 1919 who allowed women to vote? That was pretty forward thinking for a state located far from the so called "academia" of the east.

Lots of people have used Zoom on their phone or computer in the last few months.

I was a newly married cook when I wrote out a couple of my favorite recipes for our church’s centennial cookbook and though I am likely to use my laptop computer in the kitchen to make a recipe found online, I still use this paper version cookbook that was published over 30 years ago.

Chickens are the most influential animals in the world. They have definitely been the source of the most well-known idioms. I’ve been thinking of these sayings when I feed my flock of seven hens in the backyard.

I am in possession of my first tractor, which is kind of a big deal since I’ve been tractorless all the years I grew up on a farm and while married to a farmer.

None of us could have pictured a year ago that kids would be heading back to school wearing masks all day, that there wouldn’t be Husker football games, and that weddings would be curtailed if not completely canceled.

As if we need any more weird occurrences this year, we were recently the recipients of one of those packages of mystery seeds from China.

Next week, we will be in Pennsylvania visiting our daughter who is in school in Erie, which is right on Lake Erie.

That spare change jar you have sitting on top of your bedroom dresser may be valuable — maybe even worth more than the coins’ face value.

I was hooked the first time I watched a video of a person cutting into what looked like a hot cup of latte.

If I hadn’t seen a wolf the day before, I might have been more confident telling my family sitting on the deck of our vacation rental that there was a bear in the yard.

Our sixth and youngest child had her senior graduation pictures taken today. From what I can tell, they weren't a lot different than those of her two brothers and three sisters. There was the standard photo of her lounging casually on some steps leading to an abandoned apartment and the obli…

In the last three months, we’ve dusted off and mixed up some old family recipes.