Very Yummy S'More Cookies

National S’Mores Day

Today is National S’Mores Day! What a day to celebrate. I love to eat S’mores. With perfectly toasted marshmallows (not the ones you catch on fire and hop around like a maniac trying to blow it out before it turns to a charred mess), but the ones that you toast to a perfectly crunchy outside…

No Cranking Ice Cream…

We finally discovered an ice cream  recipe (which I’ve repeated here)  that does NOT require any cranking or stirring or anything else, other than freezing. Bryce loved making it! Instead of just vanilla, like the recipe specified, Bryce insisted on making cookie dough ice cream. He made the cookie dough and plopped it into the ice cream,…

Composing Blogs on the Fly

Finally – I think I’ve discovered a better way to compose my blog entries safely while I am commuting. Last Fall when I started a new job in San Francisco and had to start commuting, I had the bright idea to compose my blogs with a Speech to Text App. I tried the speech to…

Memorial Day

This poem has often been recited in ceremonies on Remembrance Day or Veterans’ Day; its message is just as clear and appropriate for Memorial Day. Let us not forget our fallen, and their sacrifices for all of us. Greg and the boys had the privilege of putting flags on  graves in the Golden Gate Cemetery…