Day: November 1, 2026

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How To Make Paper By Hand

Happy…National Gratitude Month! I am personally grateful for paper. As nice and convenient as digital has become, I still prefer the old fashioned hard copy in my hands. Making paper has become a lost art form since it was industrialized in the early 19th century. I remember doing this craft with Mom in the early […]

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"No Laugh 'N Matter" by Gloria Pitzer

“No Laugh ‘N Matter”, by Gloria Pitzer – The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving

INTRODUCTION In the 1960s and 1970s, Mom designed a few different editorial columns, satirically geared toward working homemakers like herself (or those who just want to laugh at life), mailing out samples to over 300 newspapers. Within a year, she was steadily writing two different columns (“No Laughing Matter” and “Minding the Hearth”) for 60 […]

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