Good Morning! What a way to start the day-fresh bagels and home made cream cheese. Totally Allegra's idea. Last week, completely out of the blue, Allegra asked if we could make cream cheese and bagels one day soon. Why not!! This weekend, we took the time with the girls, Allegra and Zola, to make …
Mostly Happy Journey
A kick in the butt
Last night, after Mina went to sleep, I spoke with Alex to plan our weekend with his girls. I had asked him earlier in the day if I could pick up Allegra, take her to the fabric store, and work on her bear sewing project . He was quiet, then he took a breathe and said: "You know, Lady, I have to …
BookClub Blogs
A few months ago, I was taking a class with Lyn about soft marketing your product. In order to illustrate her point about word-of- mouth marketing, she asked everyone how they pick their next book to read and was it referred to them by a friend. Finally, it was my turn and I kind of didn't …
Enough Room
So the only thing that matters is to incline one's own heart to love, because the person who loves is by nature lovable too. Yet if we love only because we want to be endearing, we succumb to the error of expecting results for our efforts. If an action is worth doing, then it doesn't lose this …
Learning to Fly
Last night I left you with my brain simmering with ideas...well...as any cook knows, a simmering pot left unattended could boil over. Me, middle of the night, a pot of ideas bubbled over and woke me up with images, quotes, music, pendant necklaces all of the same theme: feathers and flying. I had …