Searching for a Balance

I went through my mother's recipe boxes today. I don't know why I never thought to before - she's been gone eight years. So...

Two years ago I bought strawberry plants at Agway, and a strawberry pot. When the cold came, they couldn't last in the pot, of course....

I made two soups recently which surprised me. I forget where the first was from, but it entailed sauteeing some leeks in olive oil, and the...

I finished the Dottie Angel dress, except I didn't hem it. Here it is, wrinkled, and with the pockets looking (but not!) uneven.  This v...

I've read that potatoes cooked with butter and parsley is an English dish, but - When we were little, my parents were friendly ...

I will give you the key to this garden gate. Bright summer lives over the wall. You may play in the sun till the season grows la...

last, but not least - Henry on my flip flops last night Amazing that, for three days in a row, they each took a turn posing for me....

"It has been said that the difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he coul...

Sweetie on my flip-flops:

We're in the dog days of summer now, the days when the air conditioning (thank God for it!) is running even at night. But today there wa...

There was an old woman of long ago Who went about her mending. She sewed the wind against the clouds To stop the trees from bending. ...

I know nothing about gerbera daisies, except they're full of charm. So I brought one home from the supermarket the other day, and put it...

This was in Magnificat on our Independence Day, but it's just as good for any day - We pray you, O God of might, wisdom, and justice,...

What a surprise to me that we have blackberries growing in back! Not tons of them, but it's awfully nice to have them at all, since t...

kind of like book ends.

   "Churchill...taught that free peoples must work together to guard their freedom, and to do so they must recognize each other for the...

I have a board on pinterest with photos of ideas. Pictures of food that I think are good ideas, but with intent to use my own inspiration ...

" For the beauty of the earth , for the beauty of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies Lord of...

We're all getting to know each other.

"A free country where people lack industry will be poor and weak; a free country where the family does not function will have a lot of ...

Nancy and Eileen came for dinner not long ago; they brought this hanging plant. It all started when Eileen came to the library to help ...

Mastery of the frittata eluded me for years. I guess, looking back, I didn't understand it. My original impression of it was the spaghet...

"It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle down in the quiet...

Not a common sight, but the brook's gone dry.

At the thrift store/consignment shop last time, I saw a real Calphalon skillet for twenty three dollars, and grabbed it. I have another...

"O Lord, as we travel through this day of our life, our strength is in you; in our hearts are the roads to our eternal destination, th...

There aren't many personal things of my mother's which I am able to use, but it's nice when there are. She had this pink-...

I brought out an old issue of Everyday Food magazine, and decided to try a recipe of Emeril's for chicken wings, baked at 500 degrees...