Good morning, dear folks!I am grinning so big because my gimpy knee is finally healing up after the car accident and I’m able to start taking real walks again. HOORAY!Earlier this week I headed out on a particularly blustery day and to my delight found a whole sprig of lilac laying in the street in...
Monthly Archives: April 2010
I suppose it may be revisiting Slovenia that has me craving Eastern European food these days. Or perhaps it’s the gray skies and rainy days of a Washington spring. Whatever the reason, my fridge is now filled with cabbage, beets and fish, my pantry stocked with potatoes, onions and garlic. I once lived on a...
It’s been a week of the most lovely surprises.My friend Bekah popped by my office for a flurried visit from New York, bearing her beamiest of smiles, squeeziest of hugs, and this gorgeous little gardenia from her grandmother’s garden. My dear friends Art and Donna came for dinner and brought the most wonderful house-warming gift,...
It was barely 5 o’clock in the morning when we rose bleary-eyed from our beds, packed our things and set out to explore Old Town Ljubljana in Slovenia. The streets were deserted, dusky, and still as we wended our way past restaurants, shops and graffiti. I love the fierce dragons guarding the Zmajski Most –...
I’ve been a huge fan of Limoncello since “Memo The Beautiful” served icy glasses to me and my friends on a sun-warmed terrace in a tiny mountain village in Italy last spring. I never thought of making it myself until I stumbled across Mary’s One Perfect Bite post a couple of weeks ago. It looked...
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