Paris Pages, From my Travel Journal

Back to Paris? Come along with me, and perhaps you can enjoy a café allongé at the next table, as I scribble in my travel journal. Okay, yes, our travel will be of the armchair variety,…

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Easy Summer Meal from Leftover Fresh Pea Soup

If you made that fresh pea soup I described last week, and if you should happen to have leftovers — or if you liked it enough to make it again and purposefully plan for leftovers…

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Travel Sketch. . . Trogir Putto

I sketched this cheeky putto in Trogir (croatia), in the chapel of the Blessed Giovanni Orsini (by Donatello pupil Fioren) in the very beautiful St. Lawrence Cathedral, and I remembered him this past week when Hamish…

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And Fresh Pea Soup Back Home. . . .

First of all,  no, those are not Peas in the Pod.  But I thought I’d begin by pointing backwards, in case any of you have access to fresh fava beans (we’ve been able to pick…

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Duck, Duck, Goose: Making Mistakes, Having Fun. . . .

Celebrating mistakes was the subject of a post I wrote a year ago, focused on some of my sketching efforts but extending outward from that to think about doing things we’re not necessarily good at…

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