family/life/love

Having to prepare meals when I would prefer to stay in the garden drives me wild. Not that I have any issue…

And so begins another summer of good old-fashioned quality ‘Hooton family time’. When the girls were little, Ralph and I thought that it…

A hawk scans the fields near a lonely country church that sits on a farm five minutes from my house. The church…

It was a quiet day. A day of talking about life with my daughter Sara. We tried to pick fiddleheads but found…

From my daughter, Kaitie… I am my mother’s daughter. Mom came to visit me this weekend in Toronto. She hates it. Well,…

She’d left the apartment open so I could wait inside for her to finish work. It’s weird being in your adult child’s…

http://www.fundyfoodfestival.com/festival.html I am literally heading out the door to catch a flight to Toronto to see Kaitie. So quick and dirty… Last…

When I developed the menus for Italian by Night, I started with the antipasti. The beginning of the meal reveals the essense of…

It is amazing how critical a team approach is to the success of a restaurant. So many tiny details to see to……

Being called ‘cool’ by people half your age is awesome! Yesterday morning as I was perusing my Twitterfeed I read the tweet “barbbarbbarb I’m excited…