Hard to believe I would write a blog about saying “no” during this holiday season, huh.In the light of gift-giving during the holidays, a client brought by delicious gluten-free, home baked brownies and butterscotch fudge squares. Sweetly wrapped for …
My dad enlisted in the Army Air Corps (there was no Air Force back then) right out of high school. After training – he tells a wonderful story about his first solo touch-and-go flight that makes me smile to this day – he was sent to an island in the mi…
…many of you are too young to remember that line from a weekly skit on the Flip Wilson show. Many of you are probably too young to even know who Flip Wilson was! A funny guy, Flip had a sketch on his TV variety show in which he would dress up as a …
“The banya is like the Russian’s second mother”, wrote Pushkin in 1832. Though it may sound like hyperbole, the banya has been a staple of Russian culture and health since medieval times. Every village had at least one banya, serving not only as a ce…
The word sauna is an ancient Finnish word which means the traditional Finnish bath as well as the bathhouse itself. The oldest known saunas were pits dug into a slope or hill in the ground and used as homes during the winter. The Finns used the sauna…