
The Gem of Poplar Street: Whipped Sweet Shoppe
During the more recent history of Hazleton, a gem has emerged on Poplar Street —and with good reason, it’s very popular. In a once-upon-a-time nook of a mail depot, the Whipped Sweet Shoppe sprung up not so long ago, bringing us a new kind of fairy tale. This one is totally real! It is not […]


Pinetree Garden Seeds and Accessories Catalog 2018
I have ordered seeds and other items such as soap-making supplies, from Pinetree for many years. In particular, we have had great success with the many tomato varieties that appear in this catalog. And while they change from year to year, the selection is always abundant, and the prices are perhaps the best in the […]


doTerra’s Introductory Kit
Thanks again go out to Morgan Gilbert of Southern Roots Essential Oil Society for allowing us to sample this doTerra product. You can find the link to connect with her on Facebook, and a link to her website at the bottom of this page. While I have been studying essential oils for decades and am not […]


doTerra’s Deep Blue Rub from Southern Roots Essential Oil Society
One of my all-time favorite songs is Carly Simon’s class rock hit, “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain.” Frankly, I don’t have time for any pain, and I don’t want to make time for the discomfort that comes with injuries (I have two herniated discs from a car accident in 1990, and I also suffer […]


DoTerra’s “Serenity” Essential Oil Blend from Southern Roots Essential Oil Society
Recently, I have received three essential oil products for review from Morgan Gilbert of Southern Roots Essential Oil Society. She is a doTerra distributor and a health care professional. DoTerra has established a reputation as a high-end essential oils company, offering very pure and powerfully selected oils. This selling point has a genuine basis in […]


Our Selection of the Ten Best Seed/Nursery Catalogs Continues….
This is something that we at Mountain Laurel Copywriting would like to make a tradition. We have already selected two of our favorites: Seeds n’ Such and the Burpee catalog. And as it snows and freezes outside as I write this, we are also still getting catalogs in the mail. For many of us, the […]
