If there’s a smell that takes me straight back to childhood, it’s ripe bananas. The aroma would permeate our small house whenever my mom made banana bread, one of the few home-baked treats she whipped up with any regularity. My mom wasn’t big on sweets as a rule, and she certainly wasn’t an avid baker. [...]
Today’s Mail Tribune story on alcohol consumption during pregnancy hopefully cleared up a topic that has been clouded by divergent beliefs that, in some cases, are guarded from public discussion. Of the numerous baby showers I’ve attended (one I’ve hosted) over the past few years, none would have dared serve alcohol to the happy mom-to-be. [...]
