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Today is the winter solstice. Every day after today we will get a little more daylight 🙂

Cathy Grossu said she and her daughter were texting "all day long," including during the flight. "Then she said something like 'We're in trouble, emergency landing.' And I texted back, 'What's wrong with the plane?'" Grossu told CBS News. "Then the next thing was (the SOS alert) that you get...

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That I don’t remember but most likely a hard g. I probably never heard the word “margarine” because we used butter and my older relatives called it “oleo” instead of margarine.

I can’t speak for others, but I worked in healthcare before, during, and after COVID. I haven seen any patients die of side effects from COVID, but have had patients who have died from COVID or have devastating effects from long COVID. There are many studies available that prove people are...

When I was just learning to read, I would always sound out the words on any package, box, can, or wrapper when I was in the kitchen. I can remember being at a relative’s house and they had margarine on the table. The wrapper said, “Colored Margarine.”

Like I mentioned, I hadn’t bought Crisco for years. Maybe ten years? Or even longer? I’ve always cooked and baked with real butter. Even as a broke college student I splurged to buy butter. But for these cookies I bought l Crisco. When I opened it, I thought it looked so unnaturally white...

It reminds me of how much I love gingerbread cookies. I’ll have to add them to my baking list.

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Back in the 70s I remember when the commercials used to say Crisco was the healthier alternative because it was all vegetable shortening. Comparing it to lard, I guess. My mom used Crisco for baking and Wesson Oil for frying. She made excellent fried chicken with Wesson Oil in her electric...

In the area where I live, all three hospital systems required patients to be vaccinated for elective surgeries and procedures. Orthopedic surgeries like knee and hip replacements and other electives were cancelled unless the patient was vaccinated. But emergency surgeries were performed even...

100% I was working in a clinic where we were conducting COVID testing and treating COVID patients. I remember how closely we followed the progress of vaccine development and testing. We saw patients die of COVID before the vaccine was available. Somme who died were young people, who had no...

M&M Cookies 1 cup Crisco 1 cup packed brown sugar ½ cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 ½ cups M&Ms, divided Directions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Beat Crisco, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, and...

I recently found my favorite cookie recipe that my mom used to make when I was a child. It was a simple recipe, for M & M cookies. I had tried several different recipes over the years but none was the recipe I remembered. Well, I finally found the correct recipe and they turned out perfectly...