In adoration of Dot(May 24, 2013)
Grilled Vegetables in Foil Packets
In adoration of DotI will make the best of it. Dot RaineyEver since her lovely home going service at Cross Bridges Methodist Church, I have been thinking about Dot Rainey. T...MORE

Apple Pie Hero(April 17, 2013)
Skillet Apple Pie
All thought is creative Ernest Holmes“Tree of Life” is one of my favorite movies to come out in the last few years. The plot line reveals the 1950s childhood reflections of a middle-aged...MORE

A life-altering smile(March 14, 2013)
Baby Broccoli
Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone. Stanley Gordon WestI know a tiny girl and she has something that I want. In all probability it is one of those gifts from the ...MORE

Ring around the table(March 2, 2013)
Ring True Pasta
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. EinsteinMy maternal grandfather's given name was Claude Madison Godmac Griffith and I believe he would join me in saying tha...MORE

Nobel Peace Pizza(January 14, 2013)
Rustic Crust Pizza
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.Mary OliverIn 2012, I mustered up my best blessing and told a Chicago man, sporting a...MORE

Elevating Santa
Elevating SantaFor it is in the giving that we receive. Francis of AssisiOne Christmas Eve, after being shuffled off to bed at an early hour, my seven year old body strained i...MORE

A Bucket List for the Ages(December 2, 2012)
Tarragon Oil
I just read Wendell Berry's essay, The Work of Local Culture. Though I quake at his admonitions of a disconnected and reeling society, I am heartened by his reflections on what counts in this world.<...MORE

Here we go loopty loop(November 26, 2012)
Baby Burgers
My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. It's not my intention to show you my finger. It's my intention to show you the moon in the sky. BuddhaI knew nothing of vocal loop cov...MORE

Mighty Good Eggs(October 19, 2012)
Stein Eriksen\'s deviled eggs
Refresh thy people on their toilsome way; lead us from night to never-ending day; God of Our Fathers - Daniel C. Roberts Attracted to a tiny band of souls almost 40 years ago, I ...MORE

Charmed by a brave new world(September 3, 2012)
Horchata Milkshake
Make no little plans. Daniel BurnhamDelight takes root. Ideals grow and magnify ambition. For some of us, the subsequent journey is best informed by those who were born to inherit the f...MORE