Historic Circleville is one of those places Tom and I have driven by several times without stopping. Last summer, when we were working in Kentucky, we passed by Circleville twice a month. Fortunately, visiting Wittich’s Candy Shop gave us an excuse to stop and explore. Historic Circleville is a small city of 14,000 residents about …
Wittichs Candy Shop in Circleville
Tom and I recently made a trip to Circleville to visit Wittichs Candy Shop. I read about Wittichs Candy Shop in “Ohio Ice Cream: A Scoop of History.” It is a very interesting little book that lists lots of ice cream destinations in Ohio. Wittichs Candy Shop is not an ice cream shop, but they …
Cookies Out the Wazoo
Have you ever used the phrase “out the wazoo”? I don’t use it often, but it is a very apt description of my cookie baking during December. Out the wazoo is slang from the 1960’s and means “in great quantity or great abundance.” Did I bake cookies out the wazoo during December? Yes, I did. …
Tough Guy David Clymer
Who is your favorite tough guy? When I think of tough guys I often think of action heroes such as Harrison Ford or Arnold Schwarzenegger. I know those particular choices date me, but I don’t know any young actors that I think of as tough guys. A tough guy is someone who gets beat up …
Best Books of 2025
Have you ever wondered why we use ten as our demarcation for lists? I was listening to a podcast that talked about the 11 most endangered historic places in the United States. The podcaster asked the person he was interviewing, why 11? She responded that the first year they couldn’t narrow the list to 10, …
Clean House for the New Year
I like to have a clean house for the new year. Usually Tom and I are on our way to a National Park Site and the RV has been thoroughly cleaned before we start out. This year, however, we are not volunteering anyplace until May. So this week I have been working on cleaning the …
Full Fall and Christmas
Tom and I have been back in Ohio since the middle of September and it has been a very full fall and Christmas. Here are just a few of the things that I have done in this full fall. The end of September was spent preparing for my hip replacement surgery. Tom and I cleaned …
Merry Christmas and New Year
I hope that you had a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to a happy New Year. We had a very laid-back Christmas compared to some years. John and Jackie were in Pennsylvania visiting her family during the week of Christmas. We had talked to them before Christmas about gifts. None of us really needs …
Six The Musical
As a birthday present this year, John and Jackie gave me tickets for Six the Musical. We went to see it the week before Christmas at the Palace Theater in Columbus. Six the Musical is a pop-concert-style musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss that reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII. The six wives …
Little Grand Market in Columbus
Last week Tom and I went with John and Jackie to the Little Grand Market in Columbus for supper. We were going to a show (more on that later) and picked this unique place for supper before the show. I previously wrote about For the Love of Dough cookies and their shop is at the …