I’ll admit it, I am not a baker. That said, there’s nothing I appreciate and enjoy more than home cooked food so when the Autumn Equinox came along and it was time for me to host my annual Mabon Feast I just couldn’t bring myself, after making such a nice meal, to buy dessert in…
Month: September 2015
LUSH Haul
A ritual “is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence.” There is a place I visit often, usually after dark, where I can separate myself, disconnect from the world. A place where I find inspiration. A place where creative ideas flow. This place is…
Self Care for Mental Health
When I was 12 my parents moved me and my siblings to South America from Ontario where I was born and raised. Before moving I daydreamed about the sunny weather that lasted all year ( unlike the frigid long winters typical of the east coast of Canada), I envisioned myself walking under the shade of palm…
Balsamic Sausages with Tomatoes and Basil
If you’re like me (or like anyone else for the matter), weekdays are spent working and running around checking off my “to do” lists. The last thing I want, when I get home – sometimes as late as 7 or 8pm – is to have to start cooking a lengthy meal. This recipe is so tasty…
Autumn Equinox
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face ” After an unseasonably dry summer here on our Pacific Northwest coast, the first of September arrived with a notable cool bite in the air. Today is Sunday, 20th of September, the day before the Autumn Equinox and the home…