Puppy Breath

The lovely and patient older daughter and her husband Finn just got a dog too, a lovely and patient pup named Penny Laine.

Sweet Nuts

Why box up Christmas in January and hide all that in the garage?

He is a bonfire, I am the spark who started him.

These stuffed mushrooms are guaranteed to turn your life right around.

Oh, these Millennials, so intent on re-inventing the universe. I happen to be a Perennial, so I can relate.

We never know what’s going to happen in the next instant, do we?

Carpinteria is just another scruffy little beach town on the way to nowhere. Very special.

We are suckers for our pets just as we are suckers for our kids.

Like Poe, I raise a glass of ale, filled “with mingled cream and amber,” and toast this cozy little place.

When we flipped the old couch to haul it out, it produced $425.25 in loose nickels, 11 socks, a Yanni CD and a lavender brassier