I don’t like to eat too early in the morning. Today it was ten before I cut up my usual oranges topped with plain yogurt and salted sunflower seeds, added a cappuccino made from freshly ground decaf...

Esma is on a crusade for the perfect lamb meatball recipe to take home to her uncle’s bistro in Manhattan and has purchased sacksful of aromatic spices at the market—cloves and paprika, powdered cumin...

Sea lions stink! I discovered this last week as our hired sailboat floated past a colony of them a hundred yards off our starboard side, draped over the rocks of San Carlos like tourists at a Turkish...

Apparently the sewing bug cannot be assuaged as easily as whipping together the two beachy shifts I made a couple of weeks ago. So while helping my daughters shop for sundress patterns, I fell in love...

I’m soon off to Los Cabos for a week of Mexican sun with my family! Primarily we’re escaping the Canadian snow, of course, but I’m brushing up on my Español in hopes of real conversation...

After a month of inactivity, with my arm sling finally off and the surgical site on my shoulder healing, I felt a great need to create something with my hands before I got back to drafting on my...

  (by G.K. Chesterton) There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim And never before or again, When the nights are strong with a darkness long, And the dark is alive with rain. Never we know but...

These mukluks from northern Canada are over four decades old–a Christmas gift from my brother when I was still in my teens. They tromped me through Manitoba snowstorms and kept me warm when snowmobile...

THANKS to all who “accompanied” me on my online VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR during October and November, 2012, during which time The Third Grace was featured on many websites through reviews...

My experiment was a success! To drive your taste buds crazy and fill your tummy with nourishing and winter-worthy comfort, try this recipe: Fry 12-15 thick slices of maple-smoked bacon, retaining...

Resist the urge to buy ready-made costumes this fall—conjuring them up yourself is one of the quickest cheap thrills I know to satisfy the creative urge! My sibs and I grew up trick-or-treating in the...

An antique ceramic bowl of ripening tomatoes-on-the-vine usually sits on my counter, the rich and heady smell tickling my nostrils when I walk by. But if I enjoy the scent too long, they wither, so...