Plastic Farm AnimalsDetermined to lose the weight we put on after moving back to the States last year, Bob and I decided to take drastic action. We stopped eating so much and started getting more exercise. No more heavy breakfasts or big dinners. We’re hiking, playing Frisbee and I’m walking 30 miles a week. Amazingly, it worked! […]
Most people take their lives seriously, buying a home and settling into a career. This is not the case with our life. We tend to take ours serially – jumping from place to place and from one job to the next. To the casual observer it would seem that our life has no plan. In […]
My day in the kitchen begins and ends with this little saucepan. Donated to our culinary cause by good friends, it serves us all day long. The first thing I do after getting out of bed is turn on the burner to boil water for coffee. I spend an average of 2 hours in the […]
I like gangster movies. Maybe it’s because I spent my formative years in the Bronx, New York and West Long Branch, New Jersey. Gangster movies feed my dark, sardonic side. I like the look of that era, when waves of immigrant labor grappled for positions of power in the concrete jungles of a new country. […]
I measure my life in check marks on my “To Do” list. I walked to the grocery store, I wrote in my journal, I chopped onions, I vacuumed. Sometimes I wonder – “Am I a human being, or a human doing?” I learned the art of staying busy years ago from Julia, a gentle and […]