For our friends who are spending this Thursday marking the Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends, and for our friends around the world who celebrate big family-oriented holidays, this quick post is for you. Maybe you’re crying over chopping onions, or maybe you’re just crying…let’s face it, when we get everyone together over massive amounts…
Category: Legacy Musings – CC
Earlier essays and updates from our pre-remodel era—kept here for longtime readers.
Some Gluten Free Yum for the Holidays
Like so many of you, I am looking forward to having lots of family and company at my house over the next several weeks as we celebrate whatever holidays are meaningful to us. This always gets me inspired to plan menus, seek out or study new recipes…and this year, possibly for the first time in…
How Do You Find Your Zen?
Urban Dictionary zen One way to think of zen is this: a total state of focus that incorporates a total togetherness of body and mind. Zen is a way of being. It also is a state of mind. Zen involves dropping illusion and seeing things without distortion created by your own thoughts. “Sun is warm,…
A Day In The Life of Fergus
I don’t know about you guys, but I think we all need some cute puppy stuff up in here. I can’t bear to watch or read the news these days, and so I distract myself. Or it’s more accurate to say, Fergus distracts me. In the best ways possible. This morning, because I knew I…
I’ll Take Triggers for $500, Alex
This isn’t what I was planning to write about today. I planned to do a lovely, grateful post about how my goldfinches are back after many weeks of absence prompted by the bear damage to the bird feeder station that put it out of commission for such a long time. Okay, while I’m at it…
#amreading
I can attest that K. R. Brorman, S. A. Young and I are all voracious readers. When we can’t sit down with a physical book or an e-reader, K. R. and I are driving around in our cars, or have our earbuds in place listening to audio books. We’ll win S. A. over to this…
Falling
Autumn is a bittersweet time for many people, me included. Whether it’s the imprinting of childhood — summer is over, hot weather pastimes are put aside and it’s back to the work of life, or the memories of sweet autumns past that won’t be relived — I feel more than nostalgia. I feel a tender melancholy…
A Mountain Retreat
It’s time to get out the whiteboard! I get so excited when it’s time for K. R. Brorman, S. A. Young and I to get together for one of our sadly too infrequent writers’ retreats. It’s not easy for three very busy people, two of whom have large responsibilities to employers or family and family…
A Simile By Any Other Name Would [Possibly] Smell
This is Saturday! Not only that, it’s my Saturday to find a topic related to our writing process to explore. I think K. R. Brorman and S. A. Young would agree with me that Saturday’s are getting tougher and tougher to drill down and unearth something to blog about that may hold your interest long…
I Love Migraines … Said No One Ever
Today, class, we’re going to talk about migraines. Because I have one. Actually, I’ve been having one, or maybe it’s a series of them, for the past few days. I’ve lost track. I think it started Sunday. I knock one down and then another comes along. I blame ragweed. It’s ragweed season, as many of…