Author: rahoward

Making a name – with a scone

Long before “blog” was a term or even yet a twinkle in some bright penny’s eye, the name for my blog materialized. It was the early ‘90s, and through what I could have looked at as divine timing but instead considered professional misfortune, I was in a position where I […]

Beginning with a Birthday Cake

Here’s to birthdays and other beginnings. The birth of this blog happens to coincide with the blogger’s birthday. How else, then, to begin than with a birthday cake? Last year, I was shamed out of making my own birthday cake. It had never occurred to me that this was such […]