I do not often get a planned or sit down lunch.  On these days,  I bring my tiffin, tea, extra water and a smoothie.  The issue with a normal size lunch tote is fitting all of this food and drink. With...

My love of podcasts grows the more I listen, and this week’s highlight, Lore, doesn’t disappoint! Lore is a bi-weekly podcast that convinces you that truth really can be stranger than fiction and...

There is possibly nothing more comforting than a creamy chicken dish.  I don’t care if it’s chicken and biscuits, a hearty pot pie, chicken and rice soup, any variation makes me happy!  This creamy...

I remember a time in my late teens when I was as idealistic as I was naive and everything I did moved toward the most simple life possible.  There are parts of me that continue to yearn for this misty...

After a nice mid-morning snack of leftover pot roast, I found I still had a little over a cup of meat left with no more veggies.  Never wanting to waste, I decided to use the meat in a beef and barley soup...

So the other day when I was finishing off the first batch of my Icicle Pickles, which I must say are a-freakin’-mazing, I had about a pint of the syrupy pickle juice left over…all hot and ready to...

I’m having a rough start this morning.  That happens.  It is the inspiration for today’s discussion on coffee and for the use of the new ring flash for my camera.  Notes on the ring flash will...

The inspiration for this journal, beyond, the desire to do something freaking awesome, has been to use my Inktense Pencils to create images of the Lovecraftian ‘monsters’.  I am awed by the...