Reading Time: < 1 minute Very dark hot chocolate 1 cup milk 2 Tbs cocoa powder 4 tsp sugar 6 dashes salt Start heating milk in a saucer at medium heat. Stir in cocoa, sugar and salt. You can also add 1/4 tsp cinnamon and/or a tiny dash of cayenne pepper to be adventurous. Keep stirring frequently until hot (approximately five minutes). […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m kind of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas. I’m not a big fan of decorations or snow, and I despise Christmas music. Even worse than the freezing temperatures and tacky, overplayed tunes is the shopping. I can barely bring myself to face the lines at Walmart to shop for groceries. You can only […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ello all, Aunty Lyd’s here for my last message of the year. No need to cry though. I’ll be back next year to impart to you my wisdom and life experience. This week I was trying to think of things that Americans don’t have that I grew up with at home. Three things came to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen — and like me, you’ve probably wondered if we should be teaching such words to our children, especially all in the same sentence and tied together like that. This is aside from the point I’m trying to make, though: Do you recall the lesser-known facts of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Planning the perfect party December is a month filled with numerous holidays and extravaganzas. Throwing themed parties during this time of merriment and mayhem is a great way to recover from the constant pressure of impending finals. The challenge, however, is figuring out how to make a party stand out from the duds. The intention […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As winter approaches, there is a four-letter word that comes to the mind of many. Cold. Winter comes bearing gifts of relaxation, snow-capped mountains, and a break from the school load. But, it also brings the type of chilling weather that exiles one indoors. These types of days are those in which sleet defaces the […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some people are just impossible to shop for. Sure, you can spend hours scouring the mall or surfing the Web, but with finals looming near, who has time for that? It’s easy to resort to gift cards, but those are trite. In a time-saving effort, here are perfect gifts for the hard-to-please demographics. The music […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The UVU Symphony Band’s winter concert will be held at the Reagan Theatre on Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The set list includes music written by Pulitizer Prize winner Vincent Persichetti, Award-winning composer and director Leonard Bernstein, jazz pianist Dana Wilson, Broadway conductor Robert Russell Bennett and an original compostion by the band’s director, Dr. James Colonna. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember it clearly. “Mom, is Santa real?” “Uh…Yeah, but he died a couple weeks ago.” Oh the things parents put their poor, impressionable children through. We all had enchanting fantasies of Santa Clause when we were little, right up until they came to a screeching halt when we found out he’s not real. Although […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are looking for a great show to attend over the holidays, head over to the SCERA Theater in Orem for a family-friendly Christmas production. The SCERA Theater is showing its production of Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical, which is a sequel to the original Nunsense production. Nunsense begins with Sister Julia, Child of […]