Posted April 18, 2015 in art & craft, clean me, coherent ramblings, food, my children, my garden, my studio, pets
Addiction. I am a human being with an addictive personality. As far as I’ve seen, at age 37, I think this character trait is by far more the rule for humans instead of the exception. One of my hardest earned accomplishments in life thus far is quitting smoking cigarettes. I smoked for 8 years, almost […]
Posted July 10, 2012 in coherent ramblings, food, my children
Well, our Rangeley trip came and went much too fast. The weather was gorgeous. We enjoyed hiking, boating, fishing, swimming, late night movies, and eating lots of yummy food. I have one penultimate vacation story to report. When we arrived in town, we were immediately told that a bear was hanging around the campground. A […]
Posted May 3, 2012 in coherent ramblings, food
I’m baking Sophie’s cake now. I was opening a bag of cake mix (Yes, I do take that kind of shortcut) and I guess I opened it a bit too quickly and some flew out and onto my dear doggie! He’s always lying near my feet. Well, this time he got dusted!
Posted February 4, 2012 in coherent ramblings, food
I’ve been feeling a bit anxious lately. I’m going through that “There’s not enough time in the day to do everything that I have to do, let alone want to do” kind of thinking. I know a lot of people feel that way. Life is so busy and the pace seems to never let up. […]
Posted December 23, 2011 in food
When I was growing up, my grandmother and I made these cookies for almost every Christmas gathering. She calls them “bells” because her cookie cutter of choice for these is a bell shape. If I had to chose my very favorite cookie in the entire world, it definitely would be these. The two components; a buttery shortbread-like cookie […]