Grief is weird. It’s weird and complicated… Layered, non-linear, and ever-evolving. A few days ago marked the 20th anniversary of my mom’s journey from this world into the next and so her memory has been rapping on the pulse of my heart a little louder than usual for the past several days. I never know…
Category: Food + Family
General shares about family events, celebrations and traditions can be found here. I don’t share personal details often, but sometimes it’s nice to share the ups and downs of a well-lived life with internet friends, no? Plus we all know that you can’t talk about family without talking about food, right?
#FoodieFriday – Favorite Fall Recipes
For my very first official contribution to #foodiefriday, hosted by Carole at Piglet in Portugal, I thought I’d offer up a few of my favorite fall comfort recipes. First, Fall is my favorite season. It is a time of pulling in after all of the activity throughout the summer months. It is a time of…
Surprise Sisters
Neither of us knew that the other existed until 2019 when AncestryDNA tests uncovered not only each other, but so much more we may have never known otherwise. Wild how spitting into a tube can change the very foundation of a life and open doors to futures previously unimagined. But it can and it did….



