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An open world
Imagine if we could travel the world and stay as long as we wanted in any country we chose to stay in. Just forget about a calendar, and politics and wander across borders and through towns and out into the wild. No paperwork or begging to stay. It seems that passports came into being around…
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How to season new cookware
There is nothing like a well seasoned cast iron pan. Once when I went to New Zealand to see my children John’s daughter decided my blackened, precious, well travelled cast iron pans, loaded with memories of meals, needed cleaning so for the two weeks I was away she soaked and scoured them with salt and…
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A Dot on the Horizon
Do you see that Little Dot on the Horizon? It could be a box, or a bag or a bucket blown in the wind but no -That is Tima. Looking back to the house she is This far from home. Searching the fields for that one little forgotton kernel of corn. It took the dogs…
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while miss c slept
(photograph courtesy of Hugo Photographic Productions – he said I looked like a beautiful baby) The turkeys and the cats and the dogs. Waited. It rained all day. I did not mean to go to sleep. It just happened. The fire was burning, everyone was safe and fed but not necessarily dry and no turkeys…
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To begin
For the first hour and a bit of my journey to Chicago I drive up to a station called University Park. There I leave the car. The second half of my journey to Chicago is on the Metra. The Metra. A train designed to move as many people as possible from where they were to where…
The Kitchen's Garden 