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Coffee Date with Gallup, New Mexico. What I’ve been up to.

Start here with this mini travel guide and get inspired while planning a trip to Ireland. This Guide to Ireland has essential details that will make planning your next adventure easier. Learn about food, lodging, language, money, sights, transportation and more!

Maximize your small kitchen so that you may thrive in your tiny space.  Learn to love your kitchen no matter the size.  Organize and downsize, live simply and create with style. This post contains affiliate links for Amazon.  Thank you for supporting this blog. Living in a small 1954 bungalow has taught me a few …

Behind the scenes of a food blog – grab a cup of coffee or tea or whatever you desire and let’s chat. What’s happening? Autumn is here in all her glory. I missed you Autumn. Autumn Beauty Maybe you have always lived in a place with trees that turn beautiful colors and drop their leaves in …

It’s Springing here in Northern Utah, finally. Can we talk?  Let’s chat, over coffee, or whatever is speaking to you right now.  Tea, sparkling water, soda?  Cool. It’s nice to get out from behind the blog to chat over what has been happening.  Catching up like old friends. I love the four seasons, I swear. …

Reflections “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”    – Oscar Wilde   How did I get here? Standing in front of a reflection pool, looking down at my own reflection, I pondered the significance of this moment. I am looking at my …

They say you can never go back. There is a lot of truth to that.  You can physically go back but change is inevitable.  The physical space changes.  People change and move on.  So in that sense, you can’t go back. Last week I went back to the place where I grew up, Los Angeles. …

Friends.  Bloggers.  Home cooks.  Thank you for a great year! Being able to share recipes and fun nerdy facts about food through this blog has been a real blessing. I started this blog out of boredom during my first Winter in Utah, it was a long cold season.  This adventure inspired me to really cook …

The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir My annual backpacking trip came and went.  As always, I received far more than I deserved.  Amazing natural beauty, good food, personal challenges and good people. How do you like to spend your time? There are always two people in every picture: the photographer …

The second time I got lost in the woods, it was intentional. The first time was almost tragic and yet funny.   “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks” – John Muir The first time I got lost… The setting was my first backpacking trip in the Ansel Adams Wilderness, beauty I …