family

It’s hard to believe that it has been a year since we lost our beloved little Molly. Having never owned a pet…

Event planner extraordinaire, Sara Hooton with her adoring soon to be a bride sister Meg. Those smiles were pretty much permanent all weekend!…

In two sleeps, my daughters and their partners will be home. You know the old adage ‘I’m not losing a daughter; I’m…

The Hooton family is in total ‘get ready for Meg’s bridal shower’ mode! Meggie asked her sisters Kate and Sara to stand as…

There was a time when this fence belonged to a beloved piece of farmland.  Imagine my sweet Hampstead, sixty years ago, before…

I was supposed to be getting ready for friends coming to dinner. Instead the sun pulled me out into the pastures. I…

Ciabatta is one of my favorite Italian breads. Mom brought a loaf, for dinner, last Sunday and raved about how quick and…

Having our girls and their guys with us for the weekend was the closest thing I can imagine heaven to be. Sixty…

There are foods that I ate as a child that shall remain nameless due to their weird and wonderful ingredient content and the fact…

Mother’s day Gentle rain and fiddleheads on the banks of the Saint John River. Flowers Cards and phone calls… one year ago: fish…