New Year’s Day is a time when we look forward to the future. Some of us like to think about great memories of the past year.

At one time or another, we have all received a letter around Christmastime from a relative,a former classmate or neighbor detailing the wonderful exploits of the writer’s family in the past year.

The bluster of the naysayers who tell us our nation is going to H... in a hand basket, is ringing in our ears hourly, daily.

Every year it’s the same. What to give the person who has everything.

No one knows who made the first stack cake, but it was likely a cook who had a trusty cast-iron skillet, a good supply of sorghum molasses, dried apples and a dab of flour.