As promised from A.D.’s Birthday Dinner, here is the recipe for the Grilled Buttermilk Chicken.  As you can tell from the photo of the completed chicken, it went quick! This recipe was originally found...

Last night I completed my second ‘major’ public speaking event. When I took my promotion three years ago, I knew there would be a community education component, but I never anticipated I would be...

The impetus for my creative burst over the past year was a desire to paint abstract acrylics. Today I feel like there has been progress made to this end. Through this journey, I have learned a lot, created a...

Autumn has a special charm and sadness about it.  I love the season while hating what it signifies, the end of green and the end of warmth. Despite the predictions that this fall would fall flat due to the...

I have never made fruit salad…until today! In my research to complete this simple dish via Pinterest, I realized that a simple ton of different recipes exists for fruit salad. My criteria were slimmed by...

This is the first post in a series that I plan to dedicate to my favorite podcasts, those little things that get me through my daily travels and morning chores. I believe that my first exposure to podcasts was...

The assignment I worked on this week in the perspective course was to draw with attention to line, tone and detail.  As is my nature, I share what I feel I am successful at as well as perceived failures and...

This weeks prompt for Journal 52 was a choice between what I will say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to in 2016.  I elected to stay positive and say ‘Yes to Food!’. So what does that mean to...