When Daniel’s home, the refrigerator is always full, and so is the house. I love it. His friends are grown up, but they still hang out in the kitchen with me.   Not that I’m cooking.  Mostly I’m talking. Although I do cook breakfasts.  It’s my specialty, and I love when I  find out that some of them […]

This week is Earth Day so of course I’m thinking green.   Not only because green stands for the environment and for living things and for the movement to save the planet.  On this particular Earth Day, I’m thinking green because of what else it represents–the color of money.  I’m not thinking money— to be made in environmentally conscious products […]

My friend Lynne came through town on a visit recently.  And she came bearing gifts, the largest being a huge bag of yarn to cluttercast.    For someone who lives way too far from family and lifelong friends,  the best gift she brought was herself.   I stay in touch  via old and new forms of communication—but Facebook is no substitute for a face. […]