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Topic ~ Caregiving
The Integrity Principle of Self-Care Applied in the Caregiving Role
Welcome to 31 Days Of Self-care Self-care is essential to keeping life in balance. It was from one of my several caregiving roles that I learned the importance of self-care and the relationship to keeping life in balance. A few years ago, I moved to Delaware to take...
A Tale of Two Pots
It's another hot and humid day in Maine which is remarkable because we are nearing the ending of September when we usually are donning sweaters and rain jackets. We had a very rainy springtime with summer not getting underway until the middle of July. Now we are...
Kitchen Hacks for the Caregiver
I’ll jump right in today and first tell you that there was an important food summit in Milan. At the time, American media distracted us with local politics, so we didn’t hear much about it. It was an important summit, however, that holds possibilities of long-term...
Topic ~ Human Trafficking
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Topic ~ Food
Sustainable Seafood Summer Grilling
I’m sitting on my deck writing and working on a new product line. Words cannot adequately describe the commotion that is going on in my backyard! For several days blackbirds have been taking over the bird feeder. Only yesterday morning did I see them back down to a...
American Chop Suey and Community Dinners Bring Us Together
Next week there will be a community dinner in the food court of Mt. Blue High School. This dinner will help alleviate financial needs for Mat Otte whose mother passed recently following a short illness. Mat is a beloved member of the community, and so while the...
Bean-Hole Beans Rooted in Indigenous Cuisine
Spending summer in Maine means there is no end to the list of available options to answer the question, “what’s for dinner?”. Between festivals, restaurants, family barbeques and public suppers, we’re sure to find something that will please our palates. Our family...
Topic ~ Spiritual
Unconditional Love, Veterans, and Lobster Rolls
First appeared in The Franklin Journal The Red Barn” is a small restaurant at 455 Riverside Drive, Augusta, Maine. Making your way out of Augusta via ME-3 E, you may think you’ve gone too far just about the time you find the left turn onto Riverside. Drive down...
Thanks Mom for the Garden Memories
First published in Franklin Journal A full morning was spent here helping out Mother Nature. Here in Maine, we are in great need of rain. Where I sit in the Western Mountains, the rain that does come through, seems to mostly go above or below our locale. Until this...
Love Will Always Be Bigger
My facebook and twitter feed has been seeded with reflections on the Orlando shooting. There have been expressions of anger and hatred; excuses for each side's justification and judgement; as well as calls for openness and shining love and light on that which...
Suction-cupped Stories
I was listening to Collette Baron-Reid one day and she said "our stories get suction-cupped to our face". Yes! People who know pieces of our personal story, see us as that story and stop there.Worse, they create stories for us, about us and this becomes our identity....
Topic ~ Building Community
Unconditional Love, Veterans, and Lobster Rolls
First appeared in The Franklin Journal The Red Barn” is a small restaurant at 455 Riverside Drive, Augusta, Maine. Making your way out of Augusta via ME-3 E, you may think you’ve gone too far just about the time you find the left turn onto Riverside. Drive down...
Thanks Mom for the Garden Memories
First published in Franklin Journal A full morning was spent here helping out Mother Nature. Here in Maine, we are in great need of rain. Where I sit in the Western Mountains, the rain that does come through, seems to mostly go above or below our locale. Until this...
Love Will Always Be Bigger
My facebook and twitter feed has been seeded with reflections on the Orlando shooting. There have been expressions of anger and hatred; excuses for each side's justification and judgement; as well as calls for openness and shining love and light on that which...
Suction-cupped Stories
I was listening to Collette Baron-Reid one day and she said "our stories get suction-cupped to our face". Yes! People who know pieces of our personal story, see us as that story and stop there.Worse, they create stories for us, about us and this becomes our identity....