by Toni | Nov 30, 2023 | Be Simple, Let's Eat, Live Green
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...
by Toni | Nov 28, 2023 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Live Green
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...
by Toni | Jul 26, 2023 | Let's Eat, Live Green, Vegetables
Can there be any more colorful season than high summer? The flowers, the vegetables, the sunrises and sunsets. The world is golden and the Earth buzzes with busy bees as they travel from flower to flower, home to hive, and then back out to continue foraging. It is a...
by Toni | Apr 7, 2023 | Be Simple, Come Home, Live Green
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...
by Toni | Apr 4, 2023 | Be Simple, Come Home, Live Green
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...
by Toni | Mar 28, 2023 | Be Simple, Come Home, Live Green
by Betsy Slosar A restrictive illness during January and February kept me sidelined. When CCC emails started arriving with plans for this year’s “40 days” project, I realized that my situation presented a unique opportunity and decided to spend my un-invited “down...