The App Life: Ink

I love my apps. Most of them are not games but I have fun playing. It’s just that I like to play with photos and social media. The rest of them are tools for my work/life and games for the kids. One of the newest apps that I love is Ink. I have always loved…

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Throwback Thursday: Riding Snow in Vermont

It’s Throwback Thursday so I thought I’d share a picture from the days when I was not afraid I’d throw out my back doing cool things. I was always a x-country skier but in college my then future husband taught me to snowboard. Here I am at Mount Snow (I think) with our Jamaica, VT…

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Sincerely, your fortune cookie

Cleaning up one’s desk it is not only an exercise in sorting, cleansing, purging and organizing, but in philosophy as well. Here is the little bit of ‘food for thought’ I came across while sorting through the mountain if collected crap that all gets deposited on my desk). I think it’s the perfect thought as…

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Once in a blue moon…

What I love about “once in a blue moon…” is that it is carefree. It is not wistful. It has no sense of regret or hunger for more. It just is. And tonight, in the sky there it is… that blue moon

Summer Tomato: Unrequited Love

You can’t inhale and your breath might catch when you bite into a true summer tomato. Our Lindentree farm csa summer tomatoes are finally here. You bite into it and there is no space to breathe because it is so full if flavour. There are no empty bits that blankly slide over your taste buds….

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Shut it! or Having a Voice & Knowing When Not to Use It

Parenting… aw heck… life is complicated. We breeze through some parts and struggle, hugging the ground for dear life in other parts. Everything is rarely what it seems. And yet, we all find some kind of sick comfort in criticizing one another… some more than others. I am not writing this about any one particular…

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Fair, No Fair, Not Fair

Somewhere between the age of 5 and 8 begins the mantra of childhood ‘not fair!’. It becomes the most spoken phrase and one that raises the tiny hairs on many a parent’s neck and you, the adult, turn into your own parents responding ‘Life is not fair .’ Perhaps you swore you ‘d never say…

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Pico De Gallo Recipe: Inspired by Ree

Way before our farm tomatoes were ripe, I was cozy on the couch with my two little sous chefs watching Ree Drummond make her pico de gallo. The next day, I got my ingredients together and made a batch and I’ve been making it weekly ever since. But this week, it is a celebration because…

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