I obviously have been on an ice cream kick lately.  In fact, one day last week Erin and I fired ice cream flavor ideas back and forth.  There were flavors like:

chocolate chip mocha Irish cream
caramel apple with chopped peanuts
white chocolate blueberry pecan
vanilla apple pie

Eventually you will probably see all the flavors end up here.  One of the cool things about Erin and my relationship is that we can bounce those flavor ideas off each other..Lots of fun, and if you add the rest of the kids..well we can sit around and toss flavors back and forth the way some …read more

When we first moved to a suburb outside of Doylestown, Pa. in 1964 there were few houses in the brand new development called Palomino Farms. I was four years old and the precocious only child in the neighborhood. As such, I felt it was my duty to entertain the adults around me with my presence on a regular basis so I took to knocking on the neighbor’s door and announcing that I had come for a little visit.
Her one child was well into his teens at the time and she was delighted to usher me in to …read more

I don’t know that there is a nicer fruit than a really fresh, really tree ripened peach. I am not talking about the crisp tasteless objects that are showing up in the grocery stores right now, I am talking about the fruit that you grab from the fruit stand basket, and drive one handed while you eat it because you can’t wait until you are home and the whole car smells like a peach orchard and the juice is smearing your makeup and the steering wheel is sticky and you hope you dont see anyone you know …read more