Susan Ivory gets a snapshot of life when she walks the perimeter of her daughter’s soccer field.
Thanksgiving Dinner at the Guinea Pig Restaurant
Julia McLean serves up an exotic Canadian Thanksgiving dinner to her friends in France.
Tripping
Sometimes our lives are marked by events and sometimes events mark our lives. Michael Lebowitz writes about a Thanksgiving memory that has left an indelible footprint on his mind. It was cold. Damn. I had just moved into a new house. Blue walls, Day-Glo mandalas, no legged couches and a general sense of the ending of […]
Homes, Places And Our Sense Of Self
‘You can’t go home again,’ Thomas Wolfe wrote in his famous 1940 novel that carried the phrase as its title. But for writers the greater truth may be that you can never leave home. Or that home never leaves you.
School Daze #1: Wooden School Desks, Cherry-red Apples and Scribblers
What do an 93 year old man and 5-year old boy have in common? Their love of early 20th century wooden school desks.
Chocolates Anyone?
Paige-Jennan Andrew reminds us that happiness is not out there somewhere in the future but that if we pay attention, we can find it in every passing moment of our lives.
Disaster Cookies
Day One Moved into a new apartment. Day Seven Wanted cookies. Investigated cupboards. Shocked to find we didn’t have any cookies. Day Eight Thought about making cookies. Investigated fridge. Shocked to find we didn’t have any butter. Day Nine Bought butter. Day Ten Left butter on counter to warm up for baking process. Forgot about […]
Liquor Unlimited and Unlicensed: How to Make Liqueurs from Fruits and Herbs
From France’s farm country, Julia McLean writes about the art of making liqueurs from herbs and fruits, plus she offers up some divine recipes.
Flowers and Trust
Lorne Daniel discovers that a small, unspoken gesture can brighten your street.
Paint it Blue
A weed provided rich pickings in the 17th century, when it was used as a dye, and its revival as a natural dye is proving successful.
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