I am not one for New Year's resolutions. Instead of looking at what needs to change this year, I choose to celebrate some "accomplishments" of last year.

The concept behind the old hymn "Great is thy Faithfulness" is even more ancient, coming straight from the book of Lamentations. Calamity has come as God foretold through Jeremiah and yet there is hope.

I accidentally bought a jicama today because I was looking for an entirely different ingredient without knowing what it looked like. Enter Cook's Thesaurus, a "cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands…