What happened when I waited thirty minutes– thank you for asking— is I looked at the time and did math to see what time I could come back. Standing up in my kitchen, I considered the request. Many media will tell me to do something, and mostly I won’t. But I obey you out of… Read More »
Hello, dear reader. How are you doing? This morning some feelings were stirring inside me about relationships and needs. I was washing and chopping potatoes, cogitating hard. Everyone has needs in relationship, and I’m ok with that. It hurts when I’m shamed for what I need, or when people try to convince me that they… Read More »
Hello, reader. Happy solstice! How are you eating lately? I’m thinking about concentration of flavor. Something like sauce vs soup. I made Ming some breakfast the other morning. It was soyrizo leftover rice spinach olive oil salt garlic Sounds good, right? Yum yum! But there’s only one problem. I had only a small amount of… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing these days? I picked a sacred squash from the garden of someone I love. My dear one told me the frost would come, so take. Kabocha is my favorite. I didn’t have a knife, but it popped off the vine for me. Thank you, Parent Earth. And thank you… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Did you ever have a Jewish spouse who loves marshmallows and other gelatin-containing dessert treats that are not kosher for Passover? Or kosher at any time? There are vegan alternatives. Nonetheless, I want to tell you a better way to make jello. Ok, so if you didn’t know, jello… Read More »
“Some of the eggplant skin is tough,” I said to my chosen family member. We were eating dinner before our herbal medics class. “Or else I ate the bay leaf.” From our facial expressions, it seemed that eating the bay leaf is taboo or transgressive. truth Do you like how in our families we create… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Do you ever wonder why I cuddle Bunny? Let’s ponder that for a moment. climate change camp out conference Recently Ming and I went upstairs to Washington. Yes, that’s the state north of Oregon where we live these days. We went to a climate change camp out conference. Only… Read More »
Hey, reader. How are you? I got to live another year–it’s pretty incredible. How much life can I pack into a year? A ton! Happy birthday, with much thanks to my mama for carrying, birthing, feeding, and raising me. It’s hard to continue without her, yet here we grow. Ming took this picture of me… Read More »
“I pulled nutmeg about you yesterday,” I said. “So I made oatmeal because I wanted to see if nutmeg had anything to teach me.” Usually when I pull tarot cards, I ask what I most need and about my most important relationships. Always I include the question, “How can I be kind to Ming?” I’m… Read More »
“How do regular people make this much tempeh?” I asked Ming. I was in our kitchen, overwhelmed, wishing for advice from anywhere. Repeatedly I was making marinade but running out of space in my pyrex dishes, needing to start another two dishes of marinade in order to accommodate all that copious tempeh. “They don’t,” Ming… Read More »