Little Victories Over Multiple Sclerosis

Ashley’s Gluten-Free Buckwheat Pancakes with Date Syrup and Huckleberries

May 21, 2013

These pancakes have a story to be told. It’s a scary one, but it turns out alright. I made a second batch, not quite like the first, but close, so you could get a glimpse of their part in forming the rainbow after the storm. But it was not a dark and stormy night. Instead, […]

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Under the Pear Tree: Sweet Nothing

May 14, 2013

“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!” —Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God The legends go that both Buddha and later Isaac Newton were sitting under a tree when they received the world changing insights they are each known for. […]

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In the Garden: Thinning

May 6, 2013

We all love the blossoms of Spring. What we tend to forget about is the long latency period required to produce the blossoms we love so much. Sometimes even leafing out again is a kind of miracle. Like this grapevine. I started it from the top branch of one my neighbor Keith had grown for […]

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Simple Soft Vegan Polenta

April 30, 2013

  Polenta is a lot like great tasting silly putty or play dough. If you leave it to sit and cool, it will harden and hold a shape. That’s why so many plant-based cooks like to use it as a gluten-free substitute for pizza crust, lasagna noodles, or bread. I first learned to cook it […]

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The Miracles Keep Coming. . .

April 26, 2013

As some of you already know, Plant-Based Slow Motion Miracle now has its own page on Facebook, thanks to Susan’s patience with walking me through the process of setting it up. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll go on over and “like” it when you get a chance, and see what’s going on there. […]

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Picking Cherries, Part 2: The Power of Refusal

April 16, 2013

I met Abraham last summer at the height of cherry season. I was standing at the cartons of cherries shaded under a tent at the Farmer’s Market, picking some out. He came up to me to ask about my service dog, Romeo, who is a Silken Windhound. His manner was formal, yet gentle. His voice […]

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Picking Cherries, Part 1, and “Dusted” Frozen Cherries

April 12, 2013

The beginning of summer here in my town will be punctuated for me by the ripening of cherries.  Around and often exactly at Summer Solstice, the cherries arrive at the farmer’s market just a couple of blocks from my house: deep dark Bing, rosy Rainier, regal Queen Anne. Around town the old fruit trees once […]

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Garden Fresh “Leftovers” for Lunch

April 7, 2013

Saturday night’s weather forecast predicted we might soon see the sloppy kind of April snow showers we get a lot of around here. So far only more rain. But on Saturday, in between rain, the wind blew the clouds off to the east and the north, and the sun came out. It was the kind […]

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Reflections on Directions

April 1, 2013

I am a person people ask directions of.  Always have been.  It’s been the case that any time  I bicycled or walked down a street, cars would slow to ask me where they were or where they were going.  Amazingly, I always knew. When I became mostly confined to my house years ago, I thought […]

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Nap Time

March 8, 2013

I got to giggling today. Remember those kids in your kindergarten or preschool class, the ones who wouldn’t stay still during “quiet time” or “nap” and instead scooted around the floor on their blankets, hoping to engage other would-be nappers in wiggling or whispering? Like Tommy Smith, aka “Tommy Salami,” in my long ago kindergarten […]

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