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Over the weekend I decided to migrate my newsletter from Constant Contact to MailChimp. On the homepage there is a newsletter link. I appreciate you taking the time to sign up. Over the weekend I made 4 batches of cinnamon rolls. I use the Sweet Dough Recipe from the King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook… Continue reading Of Newsletters and Cinnamon Rolls

Cultivate: Further: Encourage.Seek the society of; make friends withto improve by labor, care or study. Most words have more than one meaning, or connotation and often it takes a little time to define, understand in context, and grow in the use and definition of that word. Often this is an incorporating of the definitions and… Continue reading Cultivate

Cultivate: Further: Encourage.Seek the society of; make friends withto improve by labor, care or study. Most words have more than one meaning, or connotation and often it takes a little time to define, understand in context, and grow in the use and definition of that word. Often this is an incorporating of the definitions and… Continue reading Cultivate

Mis nuevos pintauñas Hermes

A veces, hay que vaciar, tirar todo lo viejo, lo que ya no vale y dejar hueco a lo nuevo. Porque si no te desprendes de las cosas que ya no valen, pero que ocupan sitio, no hay lugar para que entren nuevas. Y si entran, corren el riesgo de quedar perdidas entre las viejas.

Pues a eso me he dedicado este último tiempo, en el que se van encadenando una serie de acontecimientos que nos han afectado a todos, y que todos conocemos. Sumado a otros que he tenido en mi vida personal. Me deshecho ...

When COVID hit New York City over a year ago now, death was no longer an abstract idea. People we knew were getting really, really sick, a few of them died, a few are still not 100%. When the mobil morgue parked just blocks away from our building to handle the overflow of dead bodies, […]

There are so many things going on that I cannot talk about publicly for a variety of reasons, but all of these things piled up can make life feel particularly challenging at this moment. The specifics are unimportant. Most people are grappling with things they cannot and do not talk about for personal reasons. What… Continue reading Facing Adversity

I planned on talking about sleeplessness and that feeling of waiting for sleep to return at 3am only to find that hours have drifted by and not being sure whether you’ve actually been awake the whole time or staring at the ceiling in the early hours of a new day was a bad dream. I… Continue reading Flower Flash, Sleeplessness & Amazing Photographs

The juxtaposition of the dire and frightening, with the joy and hopefulness that inevitably arrives with spring and warmer weather, is on display everywhere here in New York City, the city that has been my home for almost 40 years. At no time in my life have I been more aware of death. The collaborative… Continue reading Here We Are: A City & its People Transformed

It was a busy day taking care of grandsons. I feel so blessed to have been able to take my retirement at my earliest eligibility from my job in criminal justice, and be able to be so involved in their lives while they are still so young. I never got to be a stay at… Continue reading Sunday Scenery, Part 2