Perhaps these thoughts will offer some value to the reader, which was the ethos behind the 16th Century idiom chosen to name this Category. Back then, a penny had purchase power. How about a twenty for yours!
Remodeling 100 Year Later Remodeling my 100-year old home included painting walls. Wall color choice was a challenge because the house is small. Plus, opening the main half of the house removed single separate room paint options. Taking out a wall between the kitchen and the dining and living rooms while closing a small hall
This is an old recipe that is not the expected chocolate pie of the cafeterias, restaurants, and frozen food sections of our day. This custard-like pie is a childhood favorite of mine. My mother’s hand-written copy is posted here. Momma wrote on the back of the recipe card: “This is the chocolate pie of
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“At Home with Wisdom” Long before personal computers, laptops and cell phones were invented, my mother Ellen Richardine Evans (nee Acton) wrote on a typewriter at her rolltop desk in our home. A twentieth-century pioneer of self publishing, Richardine (Momma) obtained a trademark for Richardine’s Rolltop without any legal assistance. This website is developed
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Practice Makes Perfect The teaching of cursive writing in schools in USA is mostly abandoned. Yet, cursive writing is very useful. Once mastered, cursive writing offers a rapid means to put words on paper quicker than the alternative manuscript writing (also called printing). Cursive writing becomes distinctive over time as the skill to write in cursive increases