Zita and Ivan are having a baby!!! Hurrah little Adam is almost here – he will be a Taurus child, strong and hearty. **Flash update: Adorable Adam arrived April 30th with 3850 grams and 56 cms – now that is strong and hearty!!!** He will love the great outdoors and later enjoy a small garden ...

Spring in Northern and Central Europe is not only recognized by the emergence of forsythia, daffodils and tulips but also by the heady smell of garlic floating through the wood in the early springtime. A walk through traditional wooded areas where the ground is moist and the leaves still lay thick from the Fall often ...

Easter: rabbit, eggs, basket, bonnet, chocolate, chickadees and for me woolly sheep and lambs. I don’t want to offend anyone but I am not religious and therefore my associations are not religiouseither. However I do appreciate religious music and “All we like sheep” pops into my head when I think of Easter. Having sung Handel’s ...

Where do you go to do your introspection? You know, those long drawn-out inner discussions about your life and feelings. Do you go for a walk, a bike ride, play solitaire, or sit in the bath? I usually play solitaire. The repetitiousness of the game the challenge of the patterns, the rhythmic placing of the ...

What do you take to a Christmas pool party that will not shrink like a violet in the chlorine air and which is small enough to lay out on a pool basin rim? Most participants are bringing champagne, juice, cookies, Lebkuchen (German gingerbread), chocolate Santas and other typical Christmas-y treats but I am always starving ...

Saturn peaches look like a peach that someone sat on. They are called Saturn peaches because they look like the rings of Saturn naturally they are also called doughnut or donut peaches because they look like a ….right, donut. They originated in China and were cultivated in the United States and Europe starting in the late 1800’s. In ...