This is the MOST GORGEOUS book! I bought it for my friend Miriam’s birthday and I just ordered one from Amazon for myself. Does this have something to do with me not going to Europe this year? Not really, I always just LOVE this stuff! CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE LIVING HERE? HOW FOOD SHOULD BE!!! Read More

Spring is here and for a lot of people that means rain. Makes your garden Very happy, right?! Unfortunately, it doesn’t rain in Southern California very much but when it does it makes me very happy. Here is a list of a dozen things I love to do! 1. Make homemade soup. Usually my default [...] Read More

We finally did it! And yes, those are all dinner napkins we are wearing carefully and individually styled! After months of not being able to coordinate our book club meeting (holidays, travel, work) 4 of the 7 of us got together at Brandy’s to finally discuss Hemingway’s only unfinished book Garden of Eden. Brandy you [...] Read More

Although there are no happy endings in this book it is sooooo interesting and really makes you appreciate the freedom we have in this country, especially as a woman! The bookclub met at Elizabeths house last Thursday night August 28th where she successfully re-created the delicious Cream of Crab soup recipe we had had in [...] Read More

We finally got it together! Our book club met this past Thursday, a record breaking 6 of us! Thanks Miriam for coming all the way from work, Elizabeth for withstanding the horrific traffic, and deadline Monty, we missed you! Brandy and Miriam brought gorgeous herbs (love them!) Elizabeth and Susan yummy wine, Meredith a last [...] Read More

Of several things I’d like to wish for one of them would be more time to just curl up with a good book. It really is true relaxation and I love being taken away to another world. I just finished The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I had a hard time at first to [...] Read More