Life

"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder, You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger .. …

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"Life is a big canvas, throw all of the paint onto it that you can"   ~ Danny Kayne…

Mid Week Inspiration No. 3: Easy Weeknight Cooking…

"Saying thank-you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality"     ~ Alfred Painter…

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love"     ~ Hubert H. Humphrey…

Where do you turn for inspiration?…

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In the summertime, there aren't many things I like more than…

From hot sunset walks .. cold pickles .. shirking to-do lists .. sidewalk chalk on the soles of our shoes .. and sun on my back.  A few things that have been happening in…

“Health, contentment and trust are your greatest possessions, and freedom your greatest joy!” ~ Buddha…

Do you have a favorite cookbook?…

"Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?" ~ Zig Zigler…

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What have we been up to, you ask?…

"You should try to relax about having people over. I have friends who are nervous hostesses, and it just contaminates the entire mood of the evening. They are always rushing from the room to…

“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling ..…

"There’s no subtext with the wedge (none of that “I’m healthy!”)  Its only goal is to please"  ~ Bon Appetit…

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“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism or better living through exercise. It's because of ..…

Nearly everything you need to know about my childhood can be summed up…

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"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" ~ Charlie Brown…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

Dear Sam .. a story…

A few of the cookbooks I've been loving this Spring…

Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

It's inevitable. You're at a weekend birthday party ..…

"And as the years go by, our friendship will never die. You're gonna see it's our destiny. You've got a friend in me"…

Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's Party!' ~ Robin Williams…

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” ~ Oprah Winfrey…

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank-you .. it will be enough" ~ Meister Eckhart…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

From midnight walks under the stars to the single tulip growing in the compost bin, second-day pot roast, and pets that touch our hearts in places we didn't know we had. A few…

The wizard behind the curtain of my little corner of the Internet…

From afternoon coffee runs in our slippers .. to giant lap dogs .. to couch cocoa and peanut butter from the spoon. A few things that have been happening in our world lately…

Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

"How 'ya 'doing Grandma?"…

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take…

“And so I went and let you blow my mind. Your sweet moonbeam. The smell of you in every single dream I dream” ~ Train…

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does” ~ William James…

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating" ~ Luciano Pavarotti…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

From parsnip hash browns for breakfast, to candied pecans for breakfast dessert, to hot yoga on cold winter's nights; a few things that have been happening on my Live Healthy Iowa Challenge journey lately…

“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh…

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“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!…

What do you do when you're home alone?…

From coconut oil popcorn to old puzzles with missing pieces, to evenings with friends drinking mulled wine from solo cups.  A few things that have been happening in our world, lately…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend?…

"And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, This is important! And this is important! And this is important!…

"The toe bone's connected to the foot bone. The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone…

"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!" ~ Dr Seuss | How the Grinch Stole Christmas…

"I never thought it was a bad little tree .. Maybe all it needs is a little love" ~ Linus…

Trivia! How many cookies does Santa eat on Christmas Eve?…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him. The people who give you their food give you their heart” ~ Cesar…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend?  We're ..…

Chunks of dark chocolate, lots of nut butter…

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" ~ Charlie Brown…

"Have I told you lately that I love you?" ~ Van Morrison…

From piles of leaves to birthday cake testing to Thanksgiving recipes dotting the kitchen counter .. a few things that have been happening in our world .. lately…

Happy Sunday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

Once upon a time, there was a little girl names Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon she came upon a house. …

"I want to thank-you. Thank-you for being a friend" ~ Andrew Gold…

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn" ~ Elizabeth Lawrence…

We barked and waved as the last of our guests headed off, leftovers in hand, into the star-filled October night…

"It's hard to be angry or upset, and be grateful at the same time. If I'm ever of emotional or upset about something I think 'What am I grateful for?' I just…

"I'm so glad we live in a world where there Octobers" ~ Anne of Green Gables…

"These are the days of the endless summer .. These are the days, the time is now …

I'm not going to tell you ..…

Sometimes, when you're a food blogger who's learned enough to know what you don't know…

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"I have a core belief. Life is always happening for us, not to us, and it's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent" …

"A party without cake is just a meeting" ~ Julia Child…

When it's a beautiful summer's night; when the weary travelers have returned home from a month away…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

That's the funny thing about life .. You just never know what's going to happen when you wake up on a Tuesday…

From this day forward your Indian name will be ..…

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"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired" ~ Friedrich Nietzche…

She wasn't getting back to me. She always gets back to me …

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

"These are the days of the endless summer. These are the days, the time is now…

"This book is for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chaffer-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? …

Happy Tuesday! How was your long holiday weekend?…

I met my husband in our town's version of a soup kitchen four years ago this month…

Dear Sam .. (Sam -I-am)…

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language"…

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get" ~ Tim Russert…

“Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

"Hi G'ma .. How 'ya doin'?"…

"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand, like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's Chocolate" ~ Katharine Hepburn…

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood…

"That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not too lovable" ~ Deb Caletti…

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Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend?…

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way …