Since many gluten-free products use rice (or brown rice) flours, I’ve wasted more money than you might imagine on foods I hate. There’s just something about rice flours that cause my taste buds to rise up in rebellion, which is weird because I like rice. But when it’s ground up and added as one of […]
…and so I watched Breaking Dawn Part 2 - again - a few nights ago. One, I love the fight scene toward the end of the movie, and two…sometimes I just need to drool over Lee Pace. Lee Pace is cute as himself…but as Garrett? He’s sexy as heck and is, in my opinion, the […]
I hate to cry. No matter the reason, I think whoever said it makes you feel better was a flipping nut. All it does for me is to cause a headache and make me tired, so I avoid it whenever possible. With one exception… A handful of movies I absolutely love. The kind that pretty […]
…but is being torn apart by political differences of opinion today. While the tragedy still haunts me, I do miss the sense of unity we seemed to feel for a couple of years afterward. We need to remember how quickly horrible things can happen, and not wait until the next time (God forbid!) before we […]
I know there are a zillion sites on the internet dealing with gluten-free food intolerance, Celiac disease, wheat allergies, and more. There are probably a similar number of sites with recipes and advice to help us learn to live with this diet restriction. ~~~ So why am I adding gluten-free foods to the list of […]
We hear so much today about the need for changes in our education system, but researching for Enza raised some questions about that in my mind. Clearly something needs to be revamped, but I question some of the changes that are tossed about. In the first quarter of the 20th century alone there were an […]
Thanks to the lovely and oh-so-talented Melinda VanLone, my baby … Enza … is getting a new book cover. Don’t get me wrong, I love the original cover. It’s beautiful, but it just doesn’t shout ‘historical fiction!’ ~~~ The new one is much more appropriate for a story about the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic. What […]
Okay, so this isn’t an ode. It’s not going to be a poem, sonnet, or verse either. In fact, it’s not even going to rhyme (except maybe by accident). Nope, just a regular old blog post. However… I needed a title, and that’s what came to mind. So here we go… I started a group […]
I just watched the most amazing video about a love story that spanned decades. About a man who lost his wife after seventy-five years together. Thanks to a song writing contest, and a compassionate, generous singer, the poem Fred wrote to honor Lorraine was put to music and recorded…and is now an absolutely beautiful song. […]
Sometimes I don’t pay enough attention to things that I often regret. Like looking at brake fluid, but grabbing transmission fluid instead. I learned the hard way that using the wrong fluid will warp all of the rubber parts in the entire brake system of your Park Avenue. I thought that watching The Bouquet was […]
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