It’s Getting Close It’s getting close now. Sunday I depart. Yesterday my dear friend Barbara, who travels on the cheap six months out of the year, which I think qualifies her as being a well-seasoned practitioner of the craft, comes over to share with me her hints for packing. After a thorough once over of […]
Spring Morning
Spring Morning I open my eyes to a rainbow of sunlight this morning–prisms in my windows casting their many colors on the walls. How can one be anything other than happy at the wondrous surprise of this visible joy? This spring morning brings a new day to unfold before me. Yes, I have much to […]
Steak and Potato Pie Recipe
Steak and Potato Pie Recipe I’m still in the Celtic state of mind, and will be for sometime, as in less than a month, I will flying to the land of my adoptive ancestors birth. Ireland is from where my dad’s grandparents immigrated, and with names like O’Leary, Reilly, and Reardon, on the extended family […]
Thirty-Six Years
Thirty-Six Years That’s how long this Thanksgiving day potluck has been going on. I haven’t been there for all of them…but thirty years ago I came to my first, when Duncan was not quite two years old. Here are some 2018 photos—30 years later! Over the years we have become more than friends. We have […]
When Words Fail, There is Love
When Words Fail, There is Love Yesterday: I cook. I bake. I slip out to the store for more onions. I return, and cook and bake some more. After receiving an early morning message that my friend has lost the family home in a fire (not one of the fires in CA) I spring into action […]