In my current novel the heroine needed a patron saint, and she ended up thinking about Saint Waltruda, whose feast day is April 9. This is also the heroine’s birthday and, though it is a Very Important Day in my own family, it was chosen in the book because I was following the liturgical calendar [...]
Category: cooking
Blog mission creep++
Last summer Tony and I joined a CSA. This was not some branch of the Confederate States of America. It isn’t even Crop Share Associations, which is where my mind always goes. CSA means Community Supported Agriculture. In practice it IS crop sharing, where you pay a farmer so much per week for so many [...]
Where is that muscle?
I have discovered exactly where my hamstring muscle is, because I fell down last week. It’s kind of exciting because I thought that muscle was somewhere else, but the internet pictures all agree that it is the large muscle(s) on the back of the thigh. That’s definitely what I pulled, a large muscle back there. [...]