Yesterday was a hard day.  Yancey was gone for 24+ hours on his first firefighting shift (which went well, by the way), and I guess the kids and I weren’t ready to be yanked out of vacation mode.  I know I wasn’t, anyway.  And I felt lonely.  Also, impatient. Especially with Loretta, who was a [...]

There has been so much hubbub about bacon lately.  Almost too much.  Is that possible?  Baconnaise on Oprah, bacon salt showing up in local pubs, t-shirts extolling the virtues of bacon.  My favorite is Bacon: the Gateway Meat.  The comedian Jim Gaffigan has some hilarious sketches about bacon.  Though everybody loves bacon, we all feel [...]

We’ve been up in LaConner all weekend at Grammy and Poppy Dick’s house , reading magazines on the terrace, walking on the beach, playing pickleball.  Oh–and taking care of a sick Loretta.  I really can’t go into detail about what kind of sick she’s been.  This is a food blog, and I’d surely lose readership.  She’s on [...]

Alright.  The time has come to talk about the Enneagram.  I’ve held off as long as I’m able.  Many of you have been subjected to late nights when I pull out the Enneagram books and hold forth on my own personality type and the types of everyone else in my life.  Some of you even [...]

My boss Michael knows what he wants.  That’s part of what makes him a great boss.  I don’t have to try to read his mind or wonder what he thinks of my work.  He also knows every coffee shop and cafe in the state.  He lives and works in Leavenworth, but does tons of work [...]