Mixed Moss

There isn’t much that’s cozier than sitting cuddled in a quilt at your computer and voxing with a warm and purring cat asleep on your feet and a cup of hot chocolate at your elbow.

I have often heard that our lives are like gardens. I know who my magician is.

“The grounds of the Shadow House did not perhaps deserve the name, ‘gardens’. No one had tended them for a hundred years. But nor were they a wood. Or a wilderness. There is no word in the English language for […]

I have a friend named Jane who is starting a school in Uganda. I have been helping her by planning fundraisers for the organization she has started, i.HUG.
Recently she went to Kampala for a few weeks to try and find a building to rent to hold the school in for the first year or […]

And now, a tribute to Meg Cabot, one of my favorite take-on-a-cross-Atlantic-flight novelists.  This is from the afterword to her detective novel / chick-lit book, Size 12 Is Not Fat.
“Recently, when I told a friend the title of my new book, she asked, ‘But if size 12 isn’t fat, what is?’
Obviously, this person has never […]

Have you ever tasted chocolate that is 70% cacao? I have. It is amazing. Not just because I really like chocolate– although I do. But because it is such an indescibable mix of opposites. It is what people call “bittersweet.” Not “Sweet and sour;” that can be achieved by anyone with the proper flavors of […]