With June, strawberry season comes into full swing in Ohio. I love this… As with most produce, locally grown is so much better than shipped in, as the produce can ripen before being picked.

The church I attend, the Dayton Vineyard, has grown over the past 12 or so years I've been there. It's gone from about 300 people back then to well over 2500 people on a given weekend. On top of that growth, the church was recently given a new location...

I’m currently on a no-sarcasm kick. I catch myself still falling into sarcasm, but I’m trying more and more to stay away from it; it doesn’t come across well in print, anyway, without lots of emoticons and/or explanation. Why no sarcasm? ...

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday. My family gets together as much as possible, there’s no real pressure to go to more than one house for the day, there’s usually good football and there are still three days left before going back to...

Recently, Ninette over at Big Bold Beautiful Food was kind enough to give Livefire its first peer award for being Over The Top… Thanks, Ninette! I like that Ninette broke the rules and didn’t do the standard list of questions for this peer...

The great people at POM recently sent me a case of 100% pomegranate juice, again, bless their hearts! I love this stuff, but instead of just drinking it and enjoying it that way, I wanted to try cooking something with it. I got a couple of...

Every year around Halloween, we have a wine party at my house, inviting everyone we can to join us. We’ve called it the McAdams Wine Party before, but changed it to what we like better, the HalloWine party. Each year brings a new theme to the...