Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use...

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura T his past Wednesday a friend and I went to hear Mariza in conc...

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao Tzu I love Lent. It is a great time to take stock (again) of one's life and...

Worries go down better with soup. ~ Jewish Proverb A fellow singer asked me the other day if I were Portuguese. She overheard me regaling m...

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight.... Not people die but worlds die in them. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ...

Elegence does not consist in putting on a new dress. ~ Coco Chanel Recently I attended a party where the attire was requested to be "sm...

Nobody in this town has ever said no to a developer. We spend tax dollars to encourage sprawl, and then it comes back to us as air pollution...

Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. ~ Clementine Paddleford C ooking on Fridays are always a bit of challenge for me. I gen...

. . . liturgical music has the evocative capacity to interweave theological meaning and a sense of formal beauty and poetic insight. ~ John ...

The world is your snowball just for a song, get out and roll it along. ~ It's a Marshmallow World M y life is a sitcom. Have I ever men...

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. ~ G.K. Chesterton I t pains me to say it, but I have a feeli...

...what I want from songs now is comfort. Not to be pushed forward or challenged, though this is occasionally necessary, but to hear music t...

Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek. ~ Bryan Miller P erhaps there is some truth to the above quote. I confess I d...

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends. ~...

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, mig...

"Where's your spirit of adventure, hm?" "It died a slow and painful death when those bats came out of the rafters." ...

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein I believe in fairies… Christina Croft recently wrote a post on Emily Bron...

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. ~ Douglas Adams A las, I promised you a post on Married vs. Single this weekend. Between recoveri...

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use...

One should never be afraid of the unknown. Especially in the kitchen. ~ M. D’Eigh M mmmm. Thanksgiving weekend. A very homemade time of year...