cozy gluten free cookie-in-a-mug

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde There is nothing so lovely as a day with nothing to do when you can put on your pajamas with no make-up and natural hair all day (when you are working that is . . . ) (too much of a good thing is just . … Continue reading »

the proposal

Happy Proposal Day!! Yet another absurd holiday, but I am a fan of this one:) I was going to write about my engagement story, but I will save that for another day and share some lovely gooey-favorite quotes instead in the spirit of the day! Here are five favorites: Anne and Gilbert “For a moment … Continue reading »

something blue . . .

Something old, something new Something borrowed, something blue And a silver sixpence in her shoe. I had never heard the last part, but I think it’s a sweet tradition. One I definitely would like to keep (but I don’t need the sixpence:). I’ve been thinking of what I want my “something blue” will be– personally … Continue reading »

organization: the right brainer

I like Real Simple. My roommate got it last year and I started being a fan of it sometime around then. She sent me a copy just last month and I read it to pieces before passing it on (I am not a hoarder!) (and the word “hoarder” always makes me think of the poor hoarders … Continue reading »

gf buttery mini apple tart

So I have been terrible about writing lately! The last week of CELTA combined with several cooking flops made for little time. Well, really this is my last week of CELTA, but I taught my last lesson last week, so I am just going to observe. I am so excited! But was thinking last week … Continue reading »

the storyteller

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”  ― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl Vienna, Austria. That lovely sweet city where the air is crisp and the sunlight seems more springlike in midsummer. I can only speak of midsummer, of course, because I have only been there at that time of year. … Continue reading »

the keepsake

“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last–the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”  ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise I would call myself one of the least sentimental people I know. In fact, my fiancé recently counted on … Continue reading »

gluten/dairy free french toast or monte cristo

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own I love that quote! It seems exactly the sort of thing that Virginia and Leonard would have thought (I love referring to the Woolfs’ by their first names:). I spent the last seven years at an institution … Continue reading »

the umbrella

“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” ~Ps. 91:1-2 ESV Today was a rainy day and my umbrella is broken. I could not find an inauspicious umbrella to use, so I chose to go … Continue reading »