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Home Work, a Cook’s Condition

Home Work, a Cook’s Condition

I’ve been thinking a lot about work lately. About work as career, as vocation, as the thing that defines you to a person you’ve just met (the “and what do you do?” question). About how it’s the workplace that gives a lot of us our […]

Travel Light – Five Things to Carry to Go Ecofriendly

Travel Light – Five Things to Carry to Go Ecofriendly

Despite my love of travel – stepping into a place I’ve never seen before, sampling its foods and witnessing a culture with habits and assumptions different from mine, I’m a real home body. Plus, I hate to leave the dog. He’s so daggone cute! and […]

Charlottesville August 12, 2017 Imagine a Different Day

Charlottesville August 12, 2017 Imagine a Different Day

Imagine. August 12, 2017. Charlottesville, Virginia. Imagine with me an alternative day. Early morning. The dawning sun eases its light down Water Street, the pedestrian Mall, Market Street. It’s quiet, as usual. But something happened overnight. Where there had been none before, banners sweep across […]