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Alive in And So It Goes
In spite of utter devastation here in coastal Florida I am trying to carry on. I have not been with my husband in almost 2 months. He is still in a rehabilitation hospital, more on that another...
Coming Back in And So It Goes
Are trying so hard to come back to you people. I’ve missed you. My life has become a shambles. there’s so many unhappy things I could tell you but in order for me to tell you I would have to revi...
Home is where the heart is in And So It Goes
Me-ish in And So It Goes
I need to lose 1 lbs. 6 oz. to be at my normal 126 pounds give or take. I can do this today after being on a two week cruise and home for the holidays. I consider myself lucky I take no credit a...
Ghost of Christmas Past in And So It Goes
I just stumbled upon this in an old document folder on my phone. At the time this was written, I was so lost. My soul was damaged. I am better now. The day before my daughter was left for dead, ...
Days Like This in And So It Goes
The whole Key West thing turned into a fiasco. I decided to cancel the Key West Express and not even go. I regrouped and scheduled a resort on beautiful Sanibel Island, a mere 2.5 hours south...
Trying to Chill...It’s Not Working in And So It Goes
Before I write about the whole Key West fiasco, I need to chill. It’s been a mess and I will write about it hopefully later today. As you will see in the video, I am sitting out on the lanai with...
Leek, Mushroom, Asparagus Lasagna in Kitchen Vixen
So, it’s Tuesday. Let’s have a recipe from my blog. This is a fabulous dish. I make it often. You can find egg roll wrappers in the produce section of your market. The are the thinest fresh pasta...
Someday in And So It Goes
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” – Agnes M. Pahro
Food Porn 1.0 in Kitchen Vixen
Pasta with my homemade sauce made from San Marzano tomato purée, baby sausage meatballs, fresh Basil from my pot, and ooey, gooey warm Buratta cheese.
Hunkering Down & Hanging In in Kitchen Vixen
Life goes on in the most mundane of ways. I’ve actually been very busy doing things. One huge project and a lot of smaller ones that I will address in my journal and hopefully not feel overwhel...
How I Made the Chili in Kitchen Vixen
last night’s chili was particularly tasty. I don’t want to forget it because it was a “clean out the freezer/clean out the cupboard/free-for-all kind of chili. 1 lb ground beef 1/2 lb ground por...
Baked Spaghetti Squash AuGratin in And So It Goes
It’s another Pandemic lockdown Sunday. I’m doing laundry, reading, and generally just lounging around. I did get out of my Batman nightshirt and even brushed my hair. The scale was unkind to ...
Baking in the Age of Pandemic in And So It Goes
. I’m still thinking about the baby in the medical building I’m pondering themes of racism, poverty, and isolation in Rhodesia caused by the system of Apartheid in a 1955 novel, The Grass is S...
Surreal in And So It Goes
Surreal is the only word I can think of for this past Friday, Good Friday, only the second time we have left the house in four weeks. The first time was for The Great Brit/TGB (my husband) to s...
In This Moment in And So It Goes
This morning’s gift from Mother Nature. In spite of life’s vagaries and uncertainty, at this one incredible moment when the Magnolia blossom unfolds, my world is beautiful.
Three Weeks & Four Days, But Who's Counting? in And So It Goes
Actually, it’s been three weeks and four days that we’ve been in a self-imposed lockdown. Our days have not been much different than our normal days other than the lack of presence of people, ...
Desperate times in And So It Goes
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Lig...
Piece By Piece in And So It Goes
Piece By Piece This post was originally written in 2013 and is moved here from my old blog. The moving process begins albeit ever so slowly. “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality...
Blogging in the Age of Pandemic Redux in And So It Goes
For those who do not have a Google account, I will cross-post my blog entries. Below is the first entry… Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath — the most sacred of t...
Blogging in the Age of Pandemic in Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien 2020
As part of my new normal, I am blogging again. I am on a new blog platform. I will be moving my old posts and recipes from the old blog over to the new site. I wrote my first new entry today. ...
Arghh! in And So It Goes
This is why I’m crazy… I made a spill in the kitchen. When I went to grab a paper towel to clean up, of course He Who Shall Remain Nameless had used the last sheet. I said, “ “Hurry, I need more ...
Horizontal Line Break in And So It Goes
Can anyone please tell me the code to insert a horizontal line break when writing an entry? Thanks
Harbingers of Spring in And So It Goes
We’ve had our few days of winter here with nighttime lows in the 50s and daytime highs in the mid to upper sixties. First harbingers of our Florida Spring have just been spotted walking c down th...
A Great Time Was Had By All in And So It Goes