Have you ever had a farm to table dinner? If not, search it out at your earliest convenience. Last week Kruger Farms on Sauvie I...

Summertime and the liv'n is easy. Well that is what I always think when we get to summertime. Why do I think that, when everyone ...

Last week it was 106 degrees in Portland,  so an escape to the sea was planned. When our grandson was born I knew one day I would...

Friendship Tea Either for a lifetime or Just a little while, Some people need many friends. Others need just one o...

My "live-in gardener" and I have an addiction to adding roses in the garden. We particularly go for "old, heirloom...

Golden threads tie us together. Recently I saw those words woven into words and my heart did sing. Each thread has a story more gol...

  "Virginia Woolf had said writers needed a room of their own, and maybe artists needed them too.  Maybe everyone needs a ro...