Carbonade Valdostana, honey lime enchiladas, a Southern ghost story, Nuremberg’s hidden women, and a Gilded Age novel to watch for Another week has gone by in what felt like a blink. My mom was visiting, and time always moves faster when she is here. Now she is home, and we are back to real life,…
Chicken dumplings, pumpkin curry, two art-world mysteries, a Cotswolds bookshop romance, and a big week in Milwaukee I stayed up late Wednesday night to watch the Brewers win the World Series. I am not a sports fan as a general rule, but this is my hometown team, and I had a very personal reason to…
Skillet enchiladas, butternut squash pizza, three books worth your time, and a few links worth clicking The weather this week has been exactly what I want fall to be. Cool, crisp mornings where you actually need a jacket, sunny afternoons that manage to be warm without being hot, and evenings cool enough to sit around…
Pumpkin lasagna, sheet pan chicken, three October reads, and a Stockholm home with a box bed Good morning, friends. Happy Friday. Is it still fall? The weather here has been so beautiful this week, warm and sunny more like a late spring afternoon than October. I am not complaining. The view from the porch stopped…
Two birthdays, a dinner, two appointments and a garage that is not going to sort itself. Three recipes, three reads and three books. I am tired this morning. I sat here trying to figure out why and then I remembered the post I wrote this week, the one about how October is supposed to feel…
Back from Wisconsin to find monarch butterflies in the circle, three recipes for the ber months, three books and a garage project that may have to wait for the rain Welcome, October. The light is different this month. The air is different. Even the colors through the window look like someone turned up the contrast…
The rain arrived, September changed the cooking list overnight, and I am seeing a friend this weekend for the first time in far too long It has been raining, and cool, and I am grateful for both. The circle and the trees have been droopy and sad-looking after a long hot summer. This week’s rain…
Hello friends, it’s Friday, though I suspect you don’t need me to remind you the weekend is almost here. It’s still hot, as it is in many of your towns too. Don’t let that get you down. Light your fall candle, drink your pumpkin spiced latte, wrap yourself in your lightest cashmere in the air…
 Butternut squash recipes, cider pot roast, three great reads, and the articles I can’t stop thinking about Life lately has been…a lot. I have to be honest, it is hard to show up here every day and know what to say because it feels like lately there has been a series of life changing events…
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Comfort recipes, three fall reads, and a few good things as summer turns the corner It has been a week. A long, heavy one, and I will share more when we talk on Weekend Meanderings. For now I am home, which is where I needed to be, and I am happy to be back. Labor…
Recipes for the table, three books worth clearing your schedule for, and a few things making this last stretch of summer better. Summer is slowly winding down, although you would not know it from the weather. This week, sitting on the porch after my morning walk, I heard a school bus rumbling down the road…
Recipes for hot days, three books worth your time, and a few things making this week better. There is something about a fresh haircut and color that puts a spring in your step, and I will be the first to admit I am always a little trepidatious walking in. My stylist has a talent for…
