Tag: food

The Irish believe the Celtic cross represents the human desire to discover and experience the mystery of life. This cross symbolizes it as a...

I lost a dear “friend” sometime during the storms in January, which day or night I’ll never know…I wasn’t privy to its demise. I...

I would be remiss if I didn’t write about the problems we all have had since the January storms here in our valley; particularly...

Benjamin Franklin, during the late 17th century, coined the phrase, “A watched pot never boils.” I am sure each of us has uttered that...

I was in the kitchen adding eggs to the batter in my Mixmaster when the lights began to blink, that tell-tale sign that our...

San Francisco’s Chinatown was my hubby and my destination to celebrate the Chinese New Year the first year we married. 1974 was the Year of...

The blouse was grey, and the most beautiful blouse that this little 8-year-old girl had ever seen in her short lifetime. The blouse had...

   My refrigerator is practically empty, with only a few jars of condiments and a vegetable or two gracing its shelves.  I have created two major Christmas party menus and have spent the last few days of this month writing a long grocery list; its length, for a single person, seems a bit overwhelming. 

As news of the devastating Camp Fire dominated the media this week, several residents in Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley felt compelled to help in any way possible.

                             ”…Double, double, toil and trouble,