Feed your family. Feed your soul.
In May, I am taking a long awaited trip to Italy. As I’ve poured over websites around the hill villages of Cinque Terre I kept finding, so many delicious images of regional cuisine that it reminded me of a post I wrote seven years ago …read more
As we head into August we decided to take a moment and look back at some of our favorites posts over the years. I’m re-sharing one from 2014. Enjoy! August 6, 2014 When I was a child, August was one of my favorite months – …read more
An Epicure and a Protector, as an Enneagram 7 and 8 Meg is an optimistic thinker, a mover and a shaker with a deeply protective nature. Meg and I have long shared a love of travel and food which includes finding inspiration in the local …read more
Four years ago, I went on a retreat with 6 other women to spend a weekend with my friend and Certified Life Coach, Margo Montgomery to learn about the Enneagram. The Enneagram is defined as a system of classifying personality types that is based on …read more
I’ve spent years pinning kitchen images to a pinterest board and tearing pictures from magazines. So, when the time finally came to embark on our first remodel I knew exactly what I wanted. Something light, clean, and bright, after all I spend a lot of …read more
As I write this New Year’s Post I’ve been reflecting on how my life has changed over the past few months. I’ve also been reading a lot of commentary on “writing off” 2020 especially during the holiday season and have been thinking about that sentiment. …read more
Like many of you, when I learned last March that my best “gift” to humanity was to hibernate, I decided to embrace this moment as a time for introspection and reflection. I also decided (on a less philosophical note) to clean out every cabinet in my …read more
As a child, August was the month where I felt a sense of pure freedom. With school a whole month away, my friends and I spent our days biking through quiet streets, eating ice cream at Homers and on the sandy beaches of Lake Michigan. Unbeknown to …read more
Dear Zen of Slow Cooking Friends – As we wind down the week, we have found ourselves, like many people all over the world, engaged in deep and soulful conversations with our children discussing the events of the day.
“Don’t worry we can camp out in the backyard” – my famous last words as we watched the final vestiges of our long planned trip to Thailand slip away. With literally nowhere else to go, the prospect of an imminent lockdown staycation was all I …read more
Last week my sister posted a beautiful sentiment on the connection between courage and fear. I found this so relevant to today’s challenges, that I wanted to repost in honor of all the people who are holding our hands.
