"Queen" of cookie exchanges shares tips and favorite recipes

Perhaps cookie exchanges have been going on since women began making cookies. However, the formalization of this home-based event has been more recent.

Probably Robin Olson has done more through her Web sites www.robinsweb.com and www.cookie-exchange.com than anyone I know.

Again, thanks go to my sister, Carol, for finding Robin. Through a personal exchange of e-mails, they’ve become quite friendly. Thus I have also become a fan of Robin and her amazing creativity and energy.

Robin, you see, was one of those, too, who saw and understood the Internet from the get-go. She said she even once had...