“Spa” is my middle name! Add delectable cuisine in a breathtaking 19th Century mansion and I’m in heaven! But this hideaway has a unique twist. Memories Manor is an exclusive retreat designed for ladies that love to scrapbook! This St. Clair, Michigan treasure was home for a blissful weekend in mid-March for January,  Leanne, Judy, and [...]
You’d think I’d have learned by now to “walk not run” down the stairs. Well I guess I hadn’t…until yesterday. I stupidly ran down the stairs and tripped on the final two steps. I’ve learned my lesson this time after five hours in Emergency, several gruelling x-rays with a final diagnosis of a chipped ankle bone [...]
I’ve spent the better part of the winter parked in front of my TV watching contestants sing, dance, cry, starve and backstab. Yep. Sad but true. And you know I’ve found that TV and eating seem to go hand in hand. Or should I say hand to mouth! No wonder my pants were too tight [...]
Some of my family’s most memorable occasions are celebrated around my mother’s long dining room table. I say long because we set a card table up at the end of it because the table has failed to grow with the family. So on Easter Sunday, my sixteen-year-old nephew, our dear friend Don (the oldest gentleman [...]
