Every Thanksgiving for the past five years D and I have spent the holiday in the small coastal town of Mendocino, California and every year we stay at the same Inn, eat Thanksgiving dinner at the same restaurant, and fill our days doing the same things that we always do. We engage in lively conversation [...]

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This week I unveiled my personal blog,  The Passionate Plate: Savoring Life in Small Bites, which focuses on three areas of interest to me: Food and Health (Savoring), Spirituality and Faith (Saviouring), and Our Adventures at Home and on the Road (Savouring). I hope you stop by sometime. Oh, who am I kidding?! I want [...]

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I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. – Kurt Cobain Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss I live and breath for an audience of One. – Sarah Groves (from [...]

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My blog posts have been far and few between over the past three months. There was our vacation in mid-summer followed by my two surgeries followed by my mom’s death three weeks ago. There were times I didn’t post because I was delightfully busy with life, other times I was fuzzy-brained from pain medications and [...]

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