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The chicken is stewing in a tomato-citrus sauce (I know, weird sounding, but so good!). The cauliflower is roasting. The salad is ready. ...

Well, it was going to be a rerun of Monday! Light snow, a frozen car, a morning appointment. This time, I did leave the farmhouse quickly, ...

Let me say a word about breakfast. I know too many people who pass it by, or grin and bear it, or think of it as something to slog through ...

It was a sweet and kind day. Cold again, yes, quite cold (though not polar vortex cold!), but gentle in the wake up, slow and peaceful at b...

If I'm on a plane or a bus and I see that we're running late, I shrug my shoulders. Nothing I can do about it. It will be as it wil...

What a beautiful day! Glorious sunshine, a climbing thermometer, peaking at 40F, gentle winds, blue skies. I saw none of it. I lived the ...

Warmth, or pseudo warmth in January -- it's a mixed blessing. You love it, reluctantly. Snow gets really brittle. It melts, it freezes,...

We're big on them: family birthdays. We travel for them -- or some date close to them, we wrap presents in colorful paper, we sing and ...

Break's over. Time to go back. The predicted rain never came to Venice Florida. The air was warm, the skies were beautifully varied. I...

I love seasons. I do. I'm one of the few that didn't even especially mind the polar vortex! But I do think that during winter, I si...

I am on a flight from Detroit to Ft Meyers and I am breathing a deep sigh of relief. There are a thousand reasons why a flight out of the M...