Of Bikes and Bees and Things that Please. . .

Cycling this route was what I chose to do on our 43rd anniversary last week, to please myself. I clarified the choice as I wrote my “morning pages” my husband still sleeping. Some of you…

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A Mystery Guest in my Garden

Thanks so much for your lovely responses to the post I almost didn’t write on Monday, feeling a bit discouraged about blogging as I was. Or perhaps not so much discouraged as protective of my…

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What I’m Wearing: To Please Myself

 The post I had planned for this morning wasn’t really an “outfit post.” Instead, I was using the playful exhortation on this t-shirt as an entry-point to tell you about my efforts lately to figure…

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Kitchen Travels: Moroccan-Style Chicken with Lentils and Apricots

Quite some time ago, I mentioned a Moroccan-style chicken dish that Pater makes, and a few of you asked if I’d share his recipe. And then other night he served it up, with some ever…

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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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