The top-rated TV show in New York City between 8 and 10 a.m. on Christmas morning, 2002? A continuous video loop of a burning Yule-log. (Harpers, Jan. 2003) No matter what you are watching this morning, I just wanted to take a moment to wish you and your families a Very Merry Christmas –...
In 2004, Tea Leoni spent Christmas with her family in a hotel in New York. “My daughter is very concerned,” she remarked, “because she knows that at the hotel there is no chimney. We were in the car and she said, ‘What about no chimney?’ So I was trying to think...
Sausage Christmas Cake SUBMITTED BY: Sandra Anderson “Almost like a fruit cake without the fruit, very rich and the older it gets the better it tastes!! Pecans can be substituted for walnuts.” Original recipe yield: 10 -15 servings INGREDIENTS 1 pound pork sausage 1 cup cold, brewed coffee 1 cup packed dark brown sugar...
The Federal Reserve, as expected, left its target for short-term interest rates unchanged at 5.25% for a fourth straight meeting Tuesday , citing a continuing risk of inflation, despite a “substantial” slowing in the housing market. Read the story at USAToday
“One year (at Christmas) we went out to Aspen,” Jimmy Carter once recalled, “and Prince Bandar, who’s a good friend of mine from Saudi Arabia, let us use his big mansion on top of the mountain overlooking the slopes full of toys for the kids and so forth. “One morning we were having breakfast...
