FOUR OF MY FAVORITE NEW COOKBOOKS – They Are Pretty Spectacular Books. Fantastic Holiday Gifts!
By Emilie Hardman, founder
The Conscious Kitchen
Here are four of my favorite new cookbooks for this holiday! These are pretty spectacular books and would be fantastic gifts! The descriptions are from a favorite place for book lovers – The New England Mobile Book Fair whose motto is “I only came for one book…”
OUR “CIRCLE OF TRUST HOLIDAY BOOK LIST” – STARTING NOW – ADD YOUR FAVORITES!
OUR 2010 “CIRCLE OF TRUST HOLIDAY BOOK LIST”
Many of us are starting our Holiday Book-Gifting lists! I am making my own list and adding to it daily. And, I am checking in with my Circle of Trust.
What are you reading? What books do want to give? What books would like to receive this year?
BOB’S BIRTHDAY!
We celebrated my husband Bob’s 70th birthday by easing him out of his comfort zone with a raft trip down the Delaware River. Joining us were our children Joshua and Joanna and Dave Greenbaum – a wonderful potter and Bob’s partner in the BlueStone Gallery
EASING THE WAY
By Suzanne Braun Levine When my mother died recently at 94, I felt sad at losing her, but also relieved after several years of slow decline during which I always felt I was one degree of deterioration behind in caring for her. And I felt grateful – grateful to her for the loving and gracious […]
A NEW CAT IN MY LIFE
Tito (short for Gatito, little cat) is the newest addition to our household. My daughter found him in an alley in Buenos Aires, where she has been living for the past two years. He was a half-starved kitten, infested with fleas. She took him in, dealt with the fleas, and now he is a feisty […]
SCHOOL’S OUT!
AND WHAT ARE PARENTS TO DO?
Today I walked by the empty and padlocked playground of the elementary school in my neighborhood. Closed for the summer! I think back to when my kids were growing up: waiting for the yellow bus to bring them back – always slightly damp – from day camp; then in later years sewing on name […]
HOW DO YOU CELEBRATE FATHER’S DAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE FAR AWAY?
DOING WHAT DAD WANTS TAKES A NEW TWIST! Both our children are far away this year, so Father’s Day won’t be about the whole family “Doing What Dad Wants.” But it most definitely won’t be a joyless day. Instead, for my husband Bob and me it will be a celebration of “Dad’s Amazing New Project” […]
Home is where your cat is
I have recently entered a new chapter in the story of my life – as measured in feline companions: cat slave once-removed. My 22-year-old daughter just became the unprepared savior of an eight-week-old kitten. She is understandably apprehensive about taking on the responsibility but also delighted at the prospect of establishing a home of her […]
Letters home
Not long ago I came across some letters I had written home from camp. The envelopes were marked S.W.A.K. (For those who weren’t preteens back then, that stands for “Sealed With A Kiss.”) In the same shoe box were a few stilted “newsy” letters that my parents, who had no vocabulary for that kind of […]
Married and still engaged
Recently I was stunned to hear that a couple I have known – and, to tell the truth, envied – for years have gotten divorced. They always seemed so loving, so intimate, so supportive with each other. For over twenty years, they worked together, they traveled together, and I would often see them jogging together […]