Cast Iron Plant (Photo by Nino Barbieri) Winter is usually the time of year when it’s easiest to kill our houseplants with kindness. Over-watering, keeping our homes too dry and not providing enough light all make things tough for potted plant[...]

Proof of health insurance will be in the form of 1095A, B or C This year proof of insurance will come in one of three forms: 1095A, B or C. Whether or not you need these forms to file your income taxes depends on where you got your insurance coverag[...]

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. ~ Buddha (Photo by Tony Webster) Thousands of Missourians signed up or renewed their health insurance for 2016. Today’s guest, [...]

“Flowers are the music of the groundFrom earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ~ Edwin Curran, Poet (Photo from the National Garden Bureau) Some begonias are grown for their uniquely shape leaves; others for flowers. Many work well a[...]

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero (Photo courtesy of the National Garden Bureau) The modern day carrot has been bred to be sweet, crunchy and aromatic. This popular root vegetable is a member of the parsley fa[...]

“To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” ~ Alfred Austin, English poet (Photo courtesy of the National Garden Bureau) The modern day carrot has been bred to be sweet, crunchy and aromatic. This popular root veget[...]

“No more turkey, but I’d like another helping of that bread he ate.” ~ Anonymous (Photo by Ethan Lofton) You’re up at the crack-of-dawn to get the turkey ready for the oven. After all, a perfectly roasted turkey is the holy g[...]

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”~ Erma Bombeck (Photo by Liz West) If you’re hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for family and frien[...]

I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharking and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respect[...]

“There are four unbroken rules when it comes to Thanksgiving: there must be turkey and dressing, cranberries, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.” ~ John Hadamuscin, Author (Photo by Tracy Ducasse) The only time Americans, collectively, think about cr[...]