It's July, which means Cherry Season!  This week, I finally bought myself a cherry-pitter.  Every year I buy a bag of cherries beca...

Originally written Spring 2010. Perhaps just as relevant this Spring. So, looking back in my collections of ephemeral notes today, I ...

Statue of St Peter, The Vatican Several years ago, I discovered that my wrist had amassed a collection of hand-knotted friendsh...

Originally written July 2010 I sent one of my favorite people in the universe to San Francisco this week. We were quite a team, a...

Two-Six Left A train yard's beaded chevron unravels, almost imperceptibly. An abandoned unbuilt neighborhood passes below. Bold we...

Originally written Spring 2008 Recently, I've rediscovered some older songs and albums to which I never paid too much attention bef...

Draft originally begun April 2012 and inexplicably unpublished.   Made another batch of this just today, with pecans, pictured. So I...

Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays.  The red and pink, the hearts, the flowers, the chocolate, the celebration of love in...

Having spent a couple decades in the Catholic Church, I routinely gave something up this time of year.  It's been a while since I made ...

I've come across several pieces of writing lately about how the church treats single people: This.   And This. I will admit ...

We recently spent the better part of a week over on Maui.  Some highlights of the trip are a bit on-the-nose, like sunrise at the summi...

Though not the reason 1 for my neglectfulness here, exactly, I have been dabbling in some other online outposts lately. This , for shar...

I was sifting through one of my commonplace books this morning, and I came across this pearl from C.S. Lewis: 'She seems to be... w...

No deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza around here?   Not a problem .

That's right - it's a cookie, inside a cookie.  Because sometimes lilies just need gilding. Admittedly, if I were to do this a...

I had a great day!  Not for any big reason - it was just full of little delights. My morning bus driver remembers that I grabbed a news...

Brian and I both had the day off today, which was good, because he managed to get tickets to a taping of "Live With Kelly" (forme...

I've been enjoying a kitchen renaissance lately, with my luxurious free time.  Good for the soul, bad for the waistline... Last w...

Had a good grocery outing today.  I think I've become completely desensitized to Hawaii food prices.  The numbers that used to give me...

So I had a ton of tie ends (the skinny tails), left over from making a tie skirt 1 a couple years ago.  I figured I could put them to good...