The Luxury of Leftovers

The Luxury of Leftovers

Few things in life are certain, but if there is one thing you can count on after hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, a Christmas feast or a New Year’s gala it’s…leftovers. Sure some food will go home with guests in carefully collected reused containers, and some...
For the Love of a Good Harvest Muffin

For the Love of a Good Harvest Muffin

I love to think that as I age, I get wiser. I love to think that, but whether it is true or not, is another story, I imagine. Still, I do think that years of preparing for holiday madness have taught me a few things…like skip the madness and just enjoy your...
Finding Our Way Home

Finding Our Way Home

Do you ever find yourself coming back to something—a painting, a poem, a place in the landscape or an old photograph but not knowing why you continually return? The compulsion is apparently strong but the reasoning escapes you. I feel that way about the poem Four...
A Clean Renewable Current of Hope

A Clean Renewable Current of Hope

by Virginia Woulfe-Beili If there is to be a current of hope, it needs to ride on a renewable wave, a watt that does not harm A current that runs in both directions to harness the energy of the sun, the force of the wind and the power of the ocean. A current that does...