My Cookie Clinic

‘It ain’t over until we say it’s over’ … remember that famous line from Animal House? That’s how I feel about Summer 2014. This summer has been perfect and I’ll give you two reasons why.
This was my 36th summer in the Washington DC Metro Area and I've never seen one more beautiful, thanks to El Nino. We had none of the heat and humidity of our usual summers. It was warm, comfortable, breezy with occasional showers which seemed to come...

‘Gender Reveal’ is a relatively new term and it pertains to the new tradition of parties which have gained in popularity in recent years. The days of waiting until the baby’s birth to know the gender went out with the last century. Instead of relaying...

Growing up my brothers and I were close to our aunts, uncles and cousins. Even though none lived near us, several times a year we would pile into the car on a Friday evening and drive north to New York or Connecticut to visit relatives for the weekend...

Wow, My Cookie Clinic has reached 100 blog posts in just 20 months. Writing is not something that comes easily to me so I find it amazing that I have written 100 posts, as I sometimes struggle with writer’s block. No doubt, there will be no novels in...