by Toni | Dec 18, 2022 | Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Let's Eat, Sinful Sensations
Welcome to Midwinter; the December Solstice may mark the beginning of Winter for some, but for the ancients in the British Isles (and for some moderns like me, as well) the Winter Solstice begins the turning of the seasonal wheel toward Spring, when light, hope and...
by Toni | Oct 13, 2022 | Be Simple, Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Live Green
Once upon a time there was a fine lady named Alice, who was an expert seamstress. Alice had a beautiful daughter, very tall and slender with a thick braid of golden hair that swung in sassy fashion as she walked. Her daughter’s name was Mary Lynn, and she was about to...
by Toni | Aug 1, 2022 | Be Simple, Come Home, Everyday Enchantments
Have you ever opened a book, heard the author’s voice as she speaks to you for the first time and thought: “I know her! We must have spent time in my kitchen together. Or…she must be reading my mind!”? It was just this way for me when I opened Tamar Adler’s An...
by Toni | Feb 12, 2022 | Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Let's Eat, Sinful Sensations
In the snowy depths of wintery February, I like to think that Valentine’s Day comes along to warm our hearts with homemade cards, paper mâché roses and sweet treats of rich chocolate, creamy caramel and crunchy toasted nuts. Actually, I do more than think about it; I...
by Toni | Feb 27, 2019 | Everyday Enchantments, Let's Eat
“A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou beside me singing in the wilderness…” Believe it or not, my dad used to make me memorize all sorts of poetry when I was a little girl. But it really wasn’t the poetry of adolescence, not even the poetry with which most...
by Toni | Jan 30, 2019 | Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Let's Eat
My friend Teresa Kennedy makes the best fish soup I have ever tasted, hands down. It is the dish always requested when our group of friends (That would be the Mermaids, BTW.) gets together for food, fun and frolic. Her fish soup is rich, balanced and comforting, not...
