A treasured story that you’ll treasure reading. We’re pleased to publish Beth Proudfoot’s My Mother Was an Okie, a poignant tale of family history and wisdom passed from mother to daughter.
A charming award-winning story comes to us from Deanne Watson in South Africa where she recalls his Mum, boarding school life, and her favorite snickerdoodles — eaten even when smoked. Be sure to try her treasured family recipe for snickerdoodles.
Join us for Susan Nye’s award-winning story of family, friends, and traditions — how to make them and how to keep them. Be sure to try her treasured family recipe — Roasted Butternut Squash Soup.
Join us for another of our Memoir Writing Contest winning stories. This one, by Grace Ann Neuharth, shows you one woman’s struggle to find family roots after being separated from her sister when their parents died. Part of her newly found heritage is shared through the recipe for German meat rolls that she includes.
Ann Lane’s award-winning story is a joy to read. She lets us tag along on the child’s version of the car trip to meet her grandmother, the unexpected fun on the beach, after hours at Pioneer Village, and leaves us with her grandmother’s special Molasses Cookie recipe.
Join us in celebrating LaTawnia Gray’s award-winning story, a remembrance of her mother’s homemade noodles that has spanned the years. Come for the story and leave with this wonderful recipe. This is a memoir vignette worth conjuring with.
Prepare to smell the scent of cooking apples in the air as you read Lanie Tankard’s evocative story of times spent in the kitchen with her mother, making miniature pies, washing dishes, eating the apple skins. The scents and loving emotions of her childhood remain vivid today. Then enjoy her mother’s recipe for Bean Pot Apples.
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