| McCain supporters urge Republicans to unite
McCain supporters urge Republicans to unite Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau LANSING -- Michigan Republicans sought to unite their organization behind Sen. John McCain on Saturday, elected a slate of delegates to the national convention that will likely be packed with McCain supporters. But the campaign of Mike Huckabee, who has continued his quest despite having almost no chance at winning the nomination, fought efforts by McCain and Michigan primary winner Mitt Romney to deliver Romney's former delegates to McCain. Huckabee's campaign -- aided by a trip to Lansing by the candidate's wife, Janet -- said they believe they succeeded in electing at least five Huckabee supporters to the state's delegation, adding to the two the former Arkansas governor won by virtue of his performance in the Jan.
Readers cling to their favorite pies, quiche
We asked readers to send us copies of their favorite recipes clipped from our paper. They didn't disappoint. "I've had this recipe which I found in the Ann Landers column since the 1960s," wrote Patricia Pellegrini of Orland Park, of the Best-Ever Lemon Pie with Never-fail Meringue. "It has yet to fail my or my family." The pie filling calls for 2 teaspoons of vinegar, which Pellegrini admits she found odd. "But then it proved to be delicious," she said. Mary Lou Cochran of Edison Park sent in a recipe for Zucchini Quiche, dated Jan. 8, 1981. Tarragon, celery seed and Parmesan add punch. "I recall making it for a brunch I gave for my daughter back in May 1985 when she left for Europe and her college roommate came to say 'Bon Voyage,' " Cochran wrote. "Can't beat a quiche for brunch." "Glad you asked," wrote Jamie Evins of Glencoe.
One Woman's World
And as the Christmases dropped from her single-woman-raising-children-alone calendar, she slowly took on a kind of soft wisdom and self-acceptance missing in her earlier identity as Mrs. Somebody Important. The Debbies in our towns are the town's backbone and its heart - there for their children, there for their church, there for their community. If I were mayor of Anywhere, U.S.A., I would declare one day a year Debbie Day. I would read aloud a statement that says there are no perfect streets, no perfect homes, and no perfect families. I would declare loudly that we can, and we should, celebrate the Debbies everywhere who have found their wings, not in the exterior world of life as we dreamed it would be, but in the inner strength of the individual soul. That's where the perfect gardens grow.
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