I'm way overdue for pulling out one of my favorite spring teacups, this cheerful design from Royal Ardalt that features daffodils and...

Much as I love pink, I had grown weary of seeing the same pink rose tea wares on the tea trolley and decided to give it a makeover this we...

Did you know that Clara Barton was fifty-nine when she founded the American Red Cross? Now that I'm firmly in my fifties, I'm even...

If I'd planned a little better, I would have made some Coronation Chicken Salad yesterday in honor of Queen Elizabeth's 94th bir...

Are any of you Zooming your way through this time of quarantine? In the last month alone, I have used the Zoom video-conferencing app for...

With more time for leisure reading lately, I've been enjoying catching up on my reading list, including magazine reading. I had not e...

(Photo courtesy of ITV) Okay, friends. So who has started watching "Belgravia" on Sunday nights? I have, and boy, am I glad...

Last week, my friend Lynn K. thoughtfully sent me a complete kit for another teacup fairy garden, and I had so much fun putting it togeth...

I love Easter! In fact, because Christians get to celebrate the resurrection on Easter Sunday, I like Easter much better than Christmas...

I don't know about you, but one of the brightest spots in my day now is when the mail arrives. And thank goodness I subscribe to so m...

If you’re catching up on your reading these days, an intriguing new book to add to your list is The Tea Chest by Heidi Chiavaroli. Since ...

(Graphic courtesy of the Coweta County School System)  "Coping" is a word I've been seeing a lot lately, so I was pleas...

I've been looking up online tea videos, and I was surprised that I'd never come across this TED-Ed talk on "The history of t...

And suddenly, I'm finding myself with more leisure time than I would have imagined. Saturday, I started redoing the flower beds at the...

So in addition to finishing up my second cozy mystery and starting on a third, I am also this year aiming to publish a cookbook of vintag...

"One of the things I most want to do in London is have afternoon tea. Where do you think's the best place for the whole experi...

Now that we're all hunkered down inside our homes (except for those who have to go out for some super-necessary reason), I am immensel...