The Living Stones wanted the retirement reception for Candy to have the feel of a “proper” reception.  With this in mind, we decided to walk around with the hors d’oeuvres on trays and serve them to the guests. Each member of the class donned black aprons over their black pants and white or black tops. With […]

During this Christmas season, I find myself relying on my favorite recipes.  I thought you might like to have the links to these recipes for easy reference. The heading of each recipe is the link to the older post.  If you can not link to the older post, go to lanabird.com or click on the […]

Cleone Colvin, my mother, retired after forty-four years of teaching.  That is not a typo.  She taught school for forty-four years.  Wow!  After retirement, she sat about to write a cookbook called A+ in Cooking. (Good name for a cookbook written by a teacher, and it lives up to its name.)  For years she had […]