Rural France & Tartiflette

It’s almost Thanksgiving… a perfect time to remember, gratefully, the time I got to experience over a year ago in Europe, and recreate little tastes of those wonderful memories. Riding through the serene, golden-green hills and vineyards of Bourgogne, we...

Adventures in Europe: Paris… & Chocolate

Lamps on black posts cast shimmering light across the worn, stone streets, clusters of flowers brush by in bicycle baskets, lovely scent wafts after the well-dressed, slim people, the soft, lithe language ripples over my ears like a stream over pebbles… The...

Adventures in Europe – Viva Italia!

Italy! My Dear Readers,It’s been a while. Mama mia. To tell you the truth, I have a number of posts almost ready, but after writing my little life story, I wasn’t sure where to go from there. Since I have a rather random collection of interests, and a...

Bride Goes West

      The wind repeatedly knocks over the cowboy boot, set out for donations on my money table. A cowboy poetry event is planned for tonight in our tiny community; I’m one of too many volunteers. Dust stings my eyes, and whooshes through the sagebrush. Dry tumbleweeds...

Childhood in Pennsylvania

  July 1988. A month before, my birthday cake had held three, flickering candles. I nibbled the candy necklace around my neck as I sat in the front seat of the UHaul with my Pop, as my Mom and big sister followed in our brown station wagon. Loaded with homemade,...