Gardenia
Gentle reader, meet our long-awaited gardenia blossom. ❤️

Gentle reader, meet our long-awaited gardenia blossom. ❤️

I told him that the trail would be “mostly downhill,” since we had climbed mostly uphill to reach the falls. That was a bold-faced lie, but he fell for it.
When I decided to make my life about making things instead of thinking things, it was inevitable that I would eventually arrive at baking. Honestly, I’m pretty obsessed with food. I don’t cook often (one of the perks of being married to a retired chef), but John doesn’t really bake and I thought, hell, I…
I miss my mother. This morning, the feeling came through loud and clear in my journal, and to be honest, it kind of surprised me. We didn’t talk much when she was alive. Too often, I was caught up in my own stuff, unwilling to burden or be burdened. But there are times when all…
You have been shaped by everything you’ve survived. In the middle of your life, you see this, and you realize you are the one who decides what happens next.
You got the applause you craved, but it felt hollow. Here’s why. In one of my earliest memories, I’m four years old, standing barefoot on a grassy hill at some sort of summer camp. I don’t know the other kids. They don’t want to know me. And then it came, like a bolt from the…
This morning I made sandwich rolls. They are the simplest thing in the world and they’re SO much better than anything I’ve ever found in a plastic bag. My sandwich rolls call all the boys to the yard, including Jacques and Beau. Woof. They didn’t get as brown as the photo in the recipe, but…