Something happier…chocolate

I was browsing my mothers zillion cookbooks yesterday. I asked her how many cookbooks she owns, and she confessed it was in the arena of six to eight hundred. Cookbooks on anything you could imagine, jams and jellies to meat to the classics. Many, many dessert cookbooks–she’s always been a champion baker–and antique cookbooks. She [...]

Avon Walk…at last!

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 I [...]

Forget yourself…write

Quote of the day for writers:
“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music–the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, interesting people. Forget yourself.” –Henry James
What intriguing thing or person or music have you fallen in love with lately?

Circles of Quiet, workshop for working writers

The description and details for the new workshop is up at The Girls in the Basement. Meant to be a nourishing environment for published writers who need a place to rest and recharge, it begins June 16.
The next Voice I class will begin in June, too. There are only a couple of [...]

Asparagus

The ever-thoughtful Val has a food blog devoted to local eating. One of her recent posts discusses cooking from scratch, and I know there are lots of reasons people don’t do it, but one reason is feeling overwhelmed by the time it might take or simply not knowing how to cook. That’s a good [...]

S t u b b o r n *

Originally uploaded by imapix

I was looking for a good creative commons photo of weary feet at Flickr, and found this stunning photo somehow. I really thought many of you would enjoy it as much as I am. Seriously, I can’t stop looking at it. [...]