I made this meatloaf recipe yesterday and had forgotten just how good it is. This is one of the best tried and true recipes you’ll find for meatloaf and normally I don’t even LIKE meatloaf. Simply delicious. We had this yesterday and today for lunch. Both days we had a green salad. Today, I also…
Category: Writing
Creating a Website
This will be a very short post since I have been working for at least three hours on creating a writing website and my eyes are crossing. The bad news is the first two hours were spent trying over and over to edit some copy I had already posted. Finally in that last hour I…
Novel Writing, Disappointments and Baby Steps
For those of you who don’t know, I am working on a novel. This is my second serious attempt at long fiction; the first completed manuscript is lying in the bottom of my desk drawer after not finding a home among publishers. The first is memoir turned fiction and is based partly on real-life events…
Texas Visitor
I had a visitor from Sherman, Texas today, Amy Hoffman – Shehan, who arrived in LA for a conference. I met her at the Torrance Marriott this afternoon and we drove down to Long Beach for a view of the ports, the Queen Mary and then dinner at Malarkey’s Grill and One Hell of an…
Sitting in the Ojai Kitchen
It is 8:30 in the evening, almost night, with what looks like a full moon rising, and I am sitting on the floor of our new kitchen. No finished walls yet, but a tin roof, a glass door and two windows. Also, electricity supplied from a very long extension cord plugged into the well house. Having…
One of Those Days
I am not certain what to write about tonight. I’ve had several false starts, meaning that I’ve written a paragraph and then erased the whole thing. Some days are easier than others when it comes to writing this blog and today is one of the harder ones. I have attempted at least four different topics,…
Binge-Watching Again
Ray and I have begun the next TV binge-fest. This time it is Bloodline. We are only about four episodes in so I don’t quite know what I think, but it is definitely intriguing. The most interesting aspect of this family drama so far is the slow revelation of how far-reaching dysfunction can be in…
Online Shopping, Who Knew?
My children give me gift certificates for birthdays and Christmas at my request so that I will be motivated to go clothes shopping. This is not my strongest suit so all motivation is needed. One of the gift certificates I received was for Talbot’s, which was thoughtful of my girls since they know that this…
Off They Go
Good bye to Jan and John Davies, who this evening boarded a Virgin Atlantic airplane and headed back to Wales. Jan and John are two of the nicest people I know. They are the parents of our priest and friend, Father Ian Elliott Davies, and they visit our parish at least once a year for…
Ojai Kitchen Progress
Today we made major progress on the Ojai kitchen. Here are pictures to give you a look at what’s happening there. The platform is finished and in this photo we were seeing how our new cabinets will look. Remember, this is an orange grove with little critters. We decided these metal office shelves would be perfect…
20 Minutes a Day 