Monthly Archives: November 2012

TweetYou can tell it’s getting close to Christmas when all I want to do is bake… I get very sentimental this time of year, and try to create a post card, romantic song, movie life… Unfortunately it rarely works… I love to cook and the kitchen I have is less than conducive to mass baking… A couple years ago, I decided to send everyone cookies and treats for Christmas, and I baked for a week and a half… I baked 12 different kinds of cookies and made fudge, peanut brittle, and a couple kinds of cake… I sent them out to all of our family all over the country, I … Continue reading →

TweetEveryone was posting their feeling of gratitude the other day on the US holiday Thanksgiving, and I have to say I was really rather irritated by it… Not because they were being all grateful, not even because I wasn’t, more because I wasn’t there to be with them…  I know that sounds terrible, though that is how I felt… I am grateful for so much really… For instance this morning I was blow drying my hair and thinking of my housemate that had been so kind as to have let me use his hairdryer, since mine had overloaded a couple months ago… I am grateful that I am not the … Continue reading →

TweetWell it’s done… I have booked my tickets back to London for late next month… From London, I travel back to Portland… My heart is so sad to be leaving here again, it is very strange to know you live in more than one place… I am not sure why I feel this way, I know I am very excited to be going back to the US… To be with my kids and hug all those that I have been missing so much… Though some piece of me expected that things would be different, that maybe I would be staying here??? That maybe I would have found a home here … Continue reading →

TweetWhat do you think of light??? Now I should clarify that in this particular case I am speaking of the light you use to light a room, you will find that I speak of light often and generally I am meaning the light of Spirit and Soul… However this time am speaking of the light we use to see from day to day…There is a house kitty corner across the way from the Art Center where I live and I find myself getting lost in it when I am cooking in the kitchen… The house is white with red trimmings and many dark green bushes, there are old fashioned pole … Continue reading →