Earlier this week, our neighbors needed a ride to Bradley to catch a flight to visit their new grandbaby in California and his proud parents. Since they were planning an extended stay, they didn’t want to leave their car in a parking lot for such a long time. Their flight left for California at 5:30 a.m. So I set my alarm for 2:30 a.m. and stumbled out of bed to give them ...
Continue Reading → Share“Rounds of fierce storms swept over Texas and the southern Plains on Tuesday,” the news report began, “uprooting trees, overturning semi-trucks, damaging buildings and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.” Over the past few weeks, headlines have announced similar stories. One Tuesday morning media report tallied 22 storm-related deaths over the Memorial Day holiday. Then there was the National Hurricane Center’s less-than-comforting announcement that we should brace for an ...
Continue Reading → ShareI was doing some baking this week and wondered why all the sweet, sugary
concoctions that I was making included salt as one of the ingredients. I remembered, too, how my grandmother usually added a little salt to the coffee grounds before she brewed a pot. The salt, she once told me, was to remove the bitter taste from the coffee.
But salt is …well, salty. Not sweet. So why doesn’t it ruin the ...
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