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

I love making banana bread. Not because it is effortless or because it’s delicious. Banana ‘anything’ completely appeals to my frugality. You have to…

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

The moment that Meaghan told me that she was leaving home defined the beginning of a new mother daughter connection. We would…

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…

I have been reduced to a raving lunatic. One of the challenges of cooking in three kitchens – Carmarthen St , the farm…

I love May Day! A day to celebrate springtime with revelry and feasts paying homage to fertility and planting. Oh to be…