Oxymorons are funny!

Dry ice, deliberate mistakes, good grief.

But, can they be delicious? Grilling lettuce seems like an oxymoron, but it's pretty delish. Slice a sturdy piece of romaine in half lengthwise, brush one side with some olive oil, and grill it till it starts to wilt slightly. I recommend topping it with olive oil, sea salt, and parmesan cheese or your favorite salad dressing.

Summer reading club, anyone? I spent my childhood summers reading page after page at The Pennsburg Library. Mrs. Meinzer was the kindest librarian, always setting aside books she knew I’d love, from plays and historical fiction, to poetry. Kids would get paper ...

Ube is the new cauliflower. Yes, you heard me right. If you were given a bowl of purple ice cream what flavor might it be? Grape, artificial plum, blueberry? Try, yam-flavored. Ube is a type of yam and the new go-to for products that cauliflower previously dominated. ...

Naples, Florida, or Italy? Choose Italy because you can! My family and I returned from a trip to Rome a few weeks before COVID happened with no residual effects--thank you, God. During that year another trip was booked, to France, to celebrate my daughter Haylee’s ...

SweatHouz is the name of a new establishment that was ready to open just as the pandemic hit. It’s located right across the street from my office and it offers sauna time dry or wet saunas. How do you think the owner of this place felt when he found out his new ...

I was seated outside of a Mexican restaurant next to a table of happy foodies loving their experience, when a dog's head popped out the large back window of the Jeep parked by our tables. This dog, Bella, belonged to that table of happy foodies who happily started ...

Like last year, our graduating classes have pandemic stories to share. Remote learning, social distancing, face masks all stayed on the vocabulary list and the PTA had more than enough to say. Yearbooks offer Zoom class photos and all teachers should get a big, fat ...

The Colonial Pipeline closure greatly affected my area in Atlanta. I saw long lines of cars waiting to fill up at a gas station that has two pumps available. This was disconcerting. The digital gas price board changed frequently, the less gas available, the higher the ...

We were so spoiled with the lack of traffic during the pandemic! It’s a whole new road rage as cities seek their next normal, but of course, traffic is having no problem getting back to its full volume. Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Dallas report highly traveled ...

To mask or not to mask, that is the question (even if it shouldn't be). Most stations have branded face masks with their logo strategically placed. As festivals make their return, this swaggy helpful piece of cloth (protection) will be looked upon in a few different ...