If we were having coffee I would ask if you have found, as you mature, that it is the simplest things which make life most beautiful? Were you as foolish as I when very young, and dreamed of all manner of opulence and glory, and thought they made life worth living? No, I imagine you …
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Weekly Coffee Share: Breakfast Burrito Edition
Good Morning! Grab a cup and settle in. I hope you like breakfast burritos. They started out as breakfast tacos, but these are a little larger and so we roll 'em up burrito style. A good strong cup of coffee is just right with them, along with a cool glass of milk. First I fry …
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South
Many years ago, my ex-husband's job took us from our native California to Texas, which is not the South but rather the Southwest, and there are large differences, many of which I am still discovering; but at that time, Texas was South to us. OhmyGod we were soooo obnoxious! We were every elitist, snobbish, stupidly Californian …
If We Were Having Coffee…
If we were having coffee.... I would probably struggle at not sounding like Debbie Downer; it's not been the best week. Which isn't to say it hasn't had moments of light, but it's been a week of homesickness, honestly, and missing the friends and family who understand me and love me anyway. Wednesday we had …
Friday Five: Sick Edition
The RevGals ask, "For this week’s Friday Five, name five things that make you feel better when you’re sick – from foods to liquids and any other comfort item." I'm whispering this because I don't want the germs to hear: I haven't been sick this winter, at least not much. A couple days of feeling …
Dam Hearts
Our house is a five-minute drive from the largest man-made lake in South Carolina, Lake Murray, a reservoir fed by the Saluda River and across which is the Saluda Dam/Dreher Shoals Dam. A dream since the turn of the last century, the lake is named for the engineer, William S. Murray, who made it come true. It's …
Tuesday’s Child
Our daughter-in-law, Sarah, is in labor even as I type this. She's about to bring a baby boy into the world. A baby boy to carry on the name, which shouldn't matter really, as we have a granddaughter who certainly seems to be carrying on the Irish stubbornness just fine. But all new babies are …
My STAR Word… Oh Myyyyy….
What a great Epiphany at St. Simon & St. Jude! It began, as all fun things should, with a feast, specifically, a "Feast from the East," the East being taken a bit tongue in cheek. I'm not sure from what part of the East Party Potatoes come but, in the words of Liz Lemon, "I …
Friday Five: Needing an Epiphany
Michelle at RevGals asks, what do you do when you're spiritually stuck, and in need of an Epiphany? In no particular order: Clean. Yes, I use the trick of cleaning for lots of stress-inducing things and one would think I had an immaculate house but no, my house is clean in the fits and starts …
Southern Fried Californian 