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...

Looking back on this summer, I realized I left off halfway through my story of the Great Lakes Road Trip and the last stop we talked about was way back in Milwaukee!  Well, we headed out of Milwaukee bright...

I’m not one for having impossible dreams.  I am often intensely practical, though I do have a soft spot for idealist qualities.  Since I’m not a big dreamer, the prompt from Journal 52 to express...

This is the second part of a two-part series on our Hudson Valley Overnight, so head back and start at Part 1, we’ll be here when you’re ready! The Dover Stone Church Back on the road, we arrived...

The newest beautification to my life comes in the form of a gratin dish.  I know, bizarre. Every year we host Thanksgiving dinner and every year I make an Onion Gratin.  It is a rich and beautiful dish, but...

I am ambitious.  I procrastinate.  I think I am pretty normal in both of those assertions. What am I on about today?  Well, often one reads about a way to keep the house clean, workout, eat better, do whatever...

This weeks Journal 52 had three options for a prompt:  skulls, crows or what the heart knows. Since I am not a big on drawing hearts and kind of suck at being girly in that way, ‘what the heart...

After a nice mid-morning snack of leftover pot roast, I found I still had a little over a cup of meat left with no more veggies.  Never wanting to waste, I decided to use the meat in a beef and barley soup...