After such a long hiatus, I thought a good re-beginning post would be what was supposed to be published six months ago. It is clear that I wrote the following post sometime near the beginning of 2023. This was good for me to read and reflect upon. Looking back at a past post, “Clean Slate…
My Daily Walk- Day 1
Today I chose to walk to the back of the land, having finally procured a reflective vest, as rural VT loves its guns just as much as its cows. I was astonished at how overgrown and unkempt the path had become. In many places, I needed to scramble under or over brittle and broken fallen…
What I Made This Weekend
It was a pretty good weekend for making food, I’d say. Here’s what I was working on: Date (Fig) Bittmans -those date cookie numbers I wrote about in my previous post—-on the list of Food to Work On Carrot Cake Cupcakes -also a Mark Bittman recipe, and chock full of things like pineapple and golden…
Date (Fig) Bittmans
My first recipe post in a long while 🙂 A bit of a baking project, and one that used pantry items I already had on hand. Which means these were date cookies, and not fig cookies. Because who just has figs in their pantry? The recipe comes from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything: Vegetarian….
Intentions and Words of the Year
2022 Intentions and Words of the Year Though I’m only just now posting these intentions, I wrote them on New Year’s Day. I’m not exactly sure why I didn’t post them at the time, since re-reading them now after nearly 3 weeks, I wouldn’t change a thing. In fact, I already appreciate the reminder of…
Brain Dump
I wrote the following last night (between episodes of The Golden Girls), in one continuous flow of words, without (much) edit. I feel better for having written, as the words have been trapped inside my own head, and I knew that I couldn’t move forward with them weighing so heavy. I wasn’t so sure about…
This Day Today
I awoke this morning in my usual way, consciousness unfolding over a few minutes, a new day stealing away the foggy remains of my thin, early-morning dreams. As had become my custom of late, I reached for my phone, and went through the motions of checking my email, checking NPR, checking the weather forecast, and…
Clean Slate Summer 2021
I’ve recently begun to realize how far behind I’ve fallen on my way toward self-improvement. For many months, I have been stuck in the dregs of this pandemic, dragged down with the inertia of isolation and hopelessness. Any energy I had was spent trying to keep from drowning under the weight of disappointment, heartbreak, and…
Put that Hammer Down.
It’s February 1st! Now that 2020 is nearly over, it’s time for me to do a New Year’s thing. I’ll take my turn to write some thoughts….reflections on the past, hopes for the future, goals, yada yada. Like my partner here, I don’t normally make “official” New Year’s resolutions. The failure seems baked into them. …
Sunday (Tuesday) Goal Setting Week 2
That my Sunday Goal Setting post is dropping on Tuesday may give some indication as to how last week’s goals went. I had great success at the beginning of the week, but then our democracy exploded in violent anger and I don’t know, I guess I just lost focus. Despite being a couple of days…
Rebellious Belly 