2026

PEASANT RECIPES

Peasant recipes from Piemonte are world famous - they also do fancy just fine

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FINDING YOUR ELIXIR

“Expectations were exceeded on a weekly basis in Prague. A neighborhood store confirmed suspicions that elusive Bohemian ideals might be hidden behind patterns of another kind. I found a retailer where I could mix my own elixir of scents and oils with various olive oils, specialty liqueurs, brandies, and whiskies of all kinds. After making a purchase the young saleswoman wrote the name in cursive with a large white pencil on the artisan styled clear bottles.

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2025

WHO AM I?

A short story writer. Capturing the last gasp of a continent that is changing fast in a book called, “A European Odyssey; how a boxer’s daughter found grace” We sailed from Seattle, to Vancouver, then drove and flew across Canada and set sail from the port of Halifax to Gibralter in 2002 The odyssey began in Rome and lasted 20 years but the book reads like an airport novel.

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