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Last week over dinner one night, Christopher Robin said, “I think you need to take me out to get bacon for breakfast on Saturday morning.” I said, “Sure, okay. Why?” He said, “No reason,” in that sing-songy little voice that says there is a reason. But I’m patient. Well. Turned out that he landed [...] (Photos from a cell phone camera.) Last weekend, CR offered Saturday breakfast out in the world, and I sleepily pulled myself together, thinking we were going to the usual spot, The Egg and I, which is not far away. Instead, he steered toward the highway and when I asked where we were [...] Yesterday, CR and I went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to see the new Rocky Mountain Wild exhibit. This is a zoo worth visiting, truly–not large, but built along the mountain overlooking Colorado Springs, and the exhibits are more and more animal friendly. We were anxious to see the baby tiger that was [...] CR ran the US Orienteering Champs in Wyoming this past weekend. He prefaced this photo in email by saying, “remember, I lived.” In the interest of those who might be having breakfast, I won’t post the photo here, but if you want to see him in his post-race gore and glory, check it [...] This is me, starting out this morning in Dillon, Colorado on the second leg of the Avon Breast Cancer Walk in the Rocky Mountains. As you can see, the scenery was well worth every single step, all by itself. Far more worthwhile were the stories I heard along the way, and the tags [...] Orienteering season has begun. Well, actually, it began a couple of weeks ago, only I didn’t run an orange course because I had to train for the Avon Walk. Or so I said. Maybe I wasn’t ready to deal with all that frustration and humiliation and extremely likely possibility of utter failure again just [...] I wanted to give CR a bungee jump off the Royal Gorge bridge for his birthday. (Not me, HIM.) Turns out they only do it once a year, and this is not it. So I settled for a very high swing that catapults the rider over empty space 1000 feet in the air. Again, [...] Look at him!
CR and I were hiking in the fresh new snow this morning and saw this coyote walking through the trees. He wasn’t particularly worried about us, though a bit disgruntled that we might have cost him a squirrel for lunch. He posed very regally for this shot. (Click on [...] —First night in Naples, a margherita pizza. This is the simplest of things–only dough and tomato sauce, garlic and basil, but I swear to you I have never tasted tomatoes before that, as if all the days of sunlight and a few sea-laden winds and some nights of rising moons were all packed into [...] Somehow, probably on the train from Bari to Rome, I lost my travel journal. This is slightly sad because I had many good notes in there about both the trip and the brewing book; it is not a huge disaster because I never carry anything but a fresh notebook on a trip (for [...] |
Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including Rita Award Winning THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS, THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING and HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE .
Her newest book THE GARDEN OF HAPPY ENDINGS is available APRIL 17, 2012! 
A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television. |
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