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Articles

BREAKFAST

I don’t like to eat too early in the morning. Today it was ten before I cut up my usual oranges...

ISTANBUL

Esma is on a crusade for the perfect lamb meatball recipe to take home to her uncle’s bistro in...

SUN, SAND, AND SALT WATER

Sea lions stink! I discovered this last week as our hired sailboat floated past a colony of them a...

SEWING ADDICTION!

Apparently the sewing bug cannot be assuaged as easily as whipping together the two beachy shifts I...

A TOURIST ATRAVEL

I’m soon off to Los Cabos for a week of Mexican sun with my family! Primarily we’re escaping the...

SILK FROCKS

After a month of inactivity, with my arm sling finally off and the surgical site on my shoulder...

A CHILD OF THE SNOWS

  (by G.K. Chesterton) There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim And never before or again...

MUKLUKS

These mukluks from northern Canada are over four decades old–a Christmas gift from my brother when I...

BOOK TOUR 2012

THANKS to all who “accompanied” me on my online VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR during October and November...

SMOKIN’ POTATO SOUP

My experiment was a success! To drive your taste buds crazy and fill your tummy with nourishing and...

LAST-MINUTE, NO-SEW HALLOWE’EN COSTUME

Resist the urge to buy ready-made costumes this fall—conjuring them up yourself is one of the...

STEWED TOMATOES

An antique ceramic bowl of ripening tomatoes-on-the-vine usually sits on my counter, the rich and...
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