Happy New Year! Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday! Happy New Year! Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday! What are we celebrating today? A beginning or an end? Is there a difference? Does it matter? Are we just marking time, between yesterday and today, and somehow hopping that it matters? Happy New Year! Merry Christmas!...
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Red Chili Sauce This sauce is the base for everything wonderful, in terms of Mexican food, or at least for a lot wonderful, in terms of Mexican food. After the people, what I miss most about California is the great Mexican food. When we lived there, I rarely made Mexican food, as...
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Mandela I remember reading Part of My Soul Went with Him, by Winnie Mandela, and while not agreeing with their socialist idea’s, I certainly supported their work for freedom of speech and the right to assemble, and shared their disdain for apartheid. Walking through the streets of London, in 1986, I stopped...
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Fried Cabbage with Apples and Bacon Are you still looking for a quick side dish to bring to dinner tomorrow or something for Sunday supper? I love fried cabbage and serve it often, as it goes with almost anything from chicken and dumplings to baked ham to roasted turkey; and it is one of...
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Our Turkeys Viewing them from the Florida Room I love nature, and In the Wild! is one of my favorite columns to publish. Thus, I am rather diligent about my stock pile of photographs, which capture the joy I feel when I interact with the animal kingdom. The last few years, I have managed...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Dinner Table By Henri Matisse Happy Thanksgiving! “Art can never exist without naked beauty displace.” ~ William Blake~
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Remembering our Veterans I remember my first trip to Washington D.C., as a child, as well as my first as an adult, and the last. For over ten years now, I have been fortunate enough to visit my nation’s capital, at least once a year; and without exception, every trip brings new discoveries and...
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Happy Hanukkah! “We light these lights for the miracles and the wonders, for the redemption and the battles that you made for our forefathers, in those days at this season, through your holy priests. During all eight days of Hanukkah these lights are sacred, and we are not permitted to make ordinary use of...
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Fall Foliage There are few displays, in nature, with greater pageantry than fall foliage, in New England. The souls which venture north, to take in the feast of bright and bold color, are called leaf peepers! Autumn has always been my favorite time of the year, though I dread cold and...
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Is This What We Thought Grown Up Would Be? Did we expect our life to look like this? Were you going to go off to the office, why I stayed home baking cookies and plotting the overthrow of our HOA? Were we going to have two cars parked in the garage, and a...
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