Fingers ~ Chicken ~ Good?

Q Dear Miss Abigail: Can I eat chicken with my fingers? Signed, Cat A Dear Cat: I’m glad you brought up this important topic. It’s about time for a little review on dinner etiquette and the proper use of forks, knives, and other utensils. Shall we dig in? 1897: Dinner-Parties As little noise as possible. […]

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Narrow and Limited Views

[Note: written back during that oh-so-famous presidential election…remember the hanging chads?] So the election is not determined yet, and I’ve been having dreams about counting and recounting. This week’s selection goes out to our dear candidates, their lawyers, the media, the Florida state officials, and everyone else involved in this crazy political mess. It’s from […]

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Dear Lovey Dovey

Q Dear Miss Abigail: My boyfriend is going away for a month and I was just wondering if you had any neat things that we could do to keep in touch. Plus, he’s sixteen and I’m thirteen so it’s really hard for me to trust him while he’s down there. Signed, Anonymous A Dear Anonymous: […]

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The Summer Girl

Don’t get me wrong. I love the beach. It’s just that as a fair-skinned gal I’m a bit more comfortable in sweaters and snow than in shorts and sand. I promise you, though, by no means do I consider myself a “belle of the Winter Salon” ~ I swear. Where were we? Oh, yes. The […]

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The Fine Art of Smiling

I just saw a program on Botox treatments, and boy does that look weird. No matter how many books I read on the subject of beauty, it’s still hard to understand the extent that folks will mutilate themselves for the sake of it all. Although I personally would never get a treatment such as that, […]

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Foreign Substances

As I was flipping through The Art of Home Making, written by Margaret E. Sangster, I came across this most useful advice. It reminded me of an incident when I was a young girl in Auburn, N.Y. My family was on the way up the sidewalk to the public library when my older brother Chris suggested I […]

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