Plethora of Pumpkins
First, there are the teasing pumpkin bellies, stretched across fields, displaying their roundness like fertile young women in bikinis on the beach. Then come the seasonal signs, a bit battered from […]
Food and Fiction
Ridiculously Rhubarb
I’m a meditative cook. Sometimes when my writing is stalled, I take to the kitchen to clear the tangled pathways. The sift of flour, rhythmic swing of a chef’s knife, first […]
Beau’s Hot Chocolate
It is deep midwinter and I have just returned from a lovely holiday in London with family and extensions of family. Because Dickens was my first love as a reader, […]