I’m so affected by scents.  They evoke certain emotions– peace, invigoration, romance, happiness.  I love when I walk into my home after traveling and it just smells good.  It smells comfortable and clean and fresh.  Alternately, if a home doesn’t smell good, it makes me want to open all the windows, get some air circulating, […]

I’m so affected by scents.  They evoke certain emotions– peace, invigoration, romance, happiness.  I love when I walk into my home after traveling and it just smells good.  It smells comfortable and clean and fresh.  Alternately, if a home doesn’t smell good, it makes me want to open all the windows, get some air circulating, […]

Leaving my television news career has been a trial in careful self examination.  It has forced me to look closely at my goals, the motivation behind them, and put the last 8 years of my life under a microscope.  For many years I have been narrowly focussed on achieving professional success– reaching a level of […]

When the weather starts turning warmer and the buds start showing up on the trees, I know it’s time for one of my favorite vegetables….Asparagus! This hasn’t always been my favorite vegetable. When I was younger I thought that asparagus was a soggy, stringy vegetable and wanted nothing to do with it! It was only […]

Would you care to try a warm, yummy dessert that isn’t so overloaded with sugar that you crash and go into a sugar coma? This Apple, Pear, and Citrus Crumble, a cousin of cobbler, was the perfect ending to our St Patricks Day luncheon. I’m always a fan of anything I can eat with ice […]