The king of kraut: a recipe in memory of my father

by Beth Shepherd
( January 25th, 2012 )

sauerkrautMy father passed away early Sunday morning. When I shared the news with family and friends, each person I spoke to, talked about my father’s pickles and sauerkraut. Dad was the king of kraut.

Memories of making kraut with …

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Forty years of friendship

by Beth Shepherd
( December 20th, 2009 )

March 20, 1969. Backs straight in our au courant “pleather” mini-jumper dresses, Dee and I sat side by side for our fourth grade class photo. On December 20, 2008, thirty-nine years and nine months to the day this picture was taken, she died.  We’d been friends for nearly forty-three years, ...

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There’s no place like home

by Beth Shepherd
( October 26th, 2009 )

Down the lane
Rain pounds on the windshield of our rental car as we drive up the gravel road in Ingomar, Pennsylvania, just north by twenty minutes from Pittsburgh. The temperature outside is unseasonably cold and we hear that several inches of snow had fallen the week before our …

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