[Note to readers — As I mentioned in an earlier post, Graduation, I have been writing biographies of my characters who will be appearing in the novel series. In the process, I’ve written some short pieces that provide a bit of their back story — back story that probably won’t appear in the books, but…
Category: Legacy Musings – CC
Earlier essays and updates from our pre-remodel era—kept here for longtime readers.
Transit of Venus
For days I have been captivated by this phrase. It evokes thoughts of mythical love and passion. Whisper it, “transit of Venus”. What (or who) does it make you think of? True, it is an astronomical event – an extremely rare one – with all the attendant scientific terminology and descriptors, but even astronomers and…
The Sisterhood
Women are some of the most caring, compassionate, nurturing creatures on the planet. They can also be the most cunning, conniving, backstabbing beings in the world. All are capable of great drama, often unnecessarily. In a long career in which opportunities for professional women were limited, I have known more than a fair share of…
Just for the Halibut
Yes, yes. I know. Old joke. But. I have to share an absolutely delicious outcome involving fresh halibut that I picked up at the market yesterday and served for dinner last night. First thing you need to know about me is that I often do not plan menus in any great detail and have to…
Graduation
[Note to Readers — As I have been writing the biographies of my characters who will be appearing in the novel series, I thought it would be fun to create vignettes that reveal some of their back story and share them here. At the moment, I don’t plan to include these in a novel, although…
From the Sublime to the Ridiculously Easy
What does it say about us that one of every three posts on our new blog is about cocktails or food? Rhetorical. This post is about food*. Specifically asparagus because it’s that time of year, people. Several years ago, I started an immense asparagus bed in our garden and each year it pumps out what,…
Mountain Reflections
This year marks the fifteenth year since we bought our land in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and the eighth year since we pulled up stakes in Texas and moved here to build the home of our dreams and give early retirement a shot. Our land fronts on a county road that bisects a historic…
Please come in …
We’re very glad you’ve come to Stilettos, Stoli & Scribbles and we hope to make this new blog interesting, amusing or snarky enough that you will make us a regular stop on your blog tour. Nothing is predictable, but you might expect to find us writing about anything from the mantras we use to avoid…