“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.” Dave Barry, American humorist There's a health-affirming diet and there's deprivation. I love chocolate too much to ever confuse the two. Here is a recipe my daughters and I particularly love.… Continue reading Fruity Dark Chocolate
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After a long career writing for local newspapers — and, on rare occasions, for publications such as The Washington Post — Nora is enjoying a second-wind season of employment that includes blogging and writing projects of special interest. She lives in Appalachia with her husband and a dog named Finn.
Do you need to be Stephen King?
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Ernest Hemingway, American author It seems a lot of people are either writing a book or thinking about writing a book. It's as much a national past-time as plotting a way to make it onto The Voice or America's… Continue reading Do you need to be Stephen King?
Making space
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa, Christian, humanitarian It may have something to do with having an old house with many nooks and crannies. Somehow, I have come to not only terms with other species sharing the space we call home, I've… Continue reading Making space
On-Vacation Pasta Salad
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” Elbert Hubbard, American writer/publisher I've tried some fancy things in the kitchen -- not always with success, but I've tried. That said, I've cooked some of our favorite family meals in vacation cabins. You know, the kind of kitchens where… Continue reading On-Vacation Pasta Salad
The road almost not taken
"The best way out is always through." Robert Frost, American poet, "A Servant to Servants" We could easily have made a different choice, possibly the wrong choice. Call it Providence, call it an unknown mapmaker's skills, call it a strong desire not to wind up on a Weather Channel disaster-in-the-woods special. Whatever made us keep… Continue reading The road almost not taken
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