“No green food for me. I get enough of that from my own fridge”-Maxine St. Patty’s Day…Oh how I love ya…this week we celebrated with two dinners honoring the good old guy from Ireland…and there was a lot of green food involved! Well we do have a lot of Irish blood in this family….and I am […]

The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. Phyllis Diller OK, I’ll admit it…I love football!  I don’t really know why, but I think a lot of it has to do with food, OK maybe beer and food, OK maybe beer, food, men in tights […]

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. Reba McEntire What does a sad song do for you? Does it make you cry, make you snuffle for the Kleenex, make you feel like you are […]

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” ― Julia Child So I have been pretty much obsessed with cooking and entertaining and eating my whole life, not sure in what order I would place them, but one does lead to another. And the one thing that I have learned during my many […]

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa-for he has so much to look forward to-Richard Mullin Not in a million years would I have felt this way a few years ago. But having been lucky enough to go to Africa last year, I believe it now..what a […]

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert Hello Blog Family, Between family, friends and vacation, it has been a super duper month of cooking, entertaining, eating, drinking, traveling and a lot of really great connecting. I love summer! But now back to blogging and all of that important information […]

   The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.   Uh Oh…I’m in trouble…not so pure of heart I guess…because although I love animals, my track record as a pet owner has not been exactly stellar. I tried, I really, really tried….through many years of our family acquiring and […]

   And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Ok, I tried…really, really tried to remember this quote from the Bible, but I so love […]