Goodbye My Beloved Mercury…

Goodbye My Beloved Mercury…

Today we had to say goodbye to our beloved Mercury, and my heart is shattered. Though he was fourteen years old, he was always first and foremost my baby kitty–the one I never wanted in the first place, and the one I never wanted to let go. Our life with Mercury...
Stephanie’s Favorite Holiday Cookies

Stephanie’s Favorite Holiday Cookies

  Who doesn’t love cookies? I was delighted to learn, while writing My Dear Hamilton with co-author Laura Kamoie, that it was the Dutch New Netherland families like the Schuylers who first brought cookies to America. Now, of course, Dutch cookies tend to be...