Late Saturday afternoon, while I was out walking with Callie, the sky darkened from the northwest as a thunderstorm rolled over our town. Th...

...the bread eaters will play. And by "play," I mean try other bakeries. On Friday, Ken and I took a ride over to Valençay (about ...

I mentioned a week or so ago that the moles in our back yard had dug up some of the snowdrops that I planted last fall. Well, the moles may ...

I lived in San Francisco for over seventeen years. I never noticed anyone there who had any more interest in Rice-A-Roni than anyone else I...

This is one of those weeks. Successive weather systems are keeping us mostly gray and wet. The weather is not severe, just alternating rain ...

I really like sardines. They are a recent discovery for me. And French supermarkets have almost as many varieties of canned fish (mainly sar...

Today is Callie's birthday. She's four years old today. Hard to believe. And to celebrate, she's having a lie-in on one of her t...