Earlier this month, A.D. and I ventured with a friend to Gettysburg, PA and Dover, DE for a mini-vacation weekend. I talked of our time in Gettysburg last week and this week Dover gets a shout out. A.D. and I...

This week’s choice on Journal 52 was between ‘lunacy’ and ‘full moon’.    I chose lunacy. That’s not a sentence you write on the daily. Anywho, I looked through the other...

There is a much larger story surrounding my endeavor to make homemade tomato paste.  This story will be told at a later date.  Today, I will just share my triumph of will and patience that led to this culinary...

When my grandmother was younger, she would make and freeze the our family’s favorite soups and serve them to us when we came to visit.  She has since moved to an apartment with a much smaller kitchen and...

This was scheduled to post to you on Friday as part of the Love Art, Happy Life inspired series, however, I procrastinated due to sheer exhaustion.  The lesson for last week was on ‘perfectionism’...

So what do I plan to do with these blazing beauties? Why, I plan to make the most awesome Hot Pepper Jelly courtesy of the ever-awesome Ball Complete Book Of Home Preserving! I didn’t grow Habanero...

This week didn’t see a lot of progress on the deepening of my knowledge of  photography, but it did see some increased breadth.  What I really learned was that art feeds art:  photography feeds sketching...

It’s been a tough week and I’m trying to get inspired to write about Chagall and reflect on the Love Art, Happy Life assignment, but it’s honestly not coming to me. So, this post will be...