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Draft originally begun April 2012 and inexplicably unpublished.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...