Basil, Basil

by | Jul 20, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal

  Salad days. Youth, summer, innocence. We can stand to get a little Shakespearean sometimes, can we not? Lettuce is going to seed in our garden, herbs are fragrant in the air from small hands brushing through them on the way to a game of make-believe. I have a...

This Time Around

by | Oct 14, 2015 | From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal, Writing

It’s just gone Thanksgiving around here and we celebrated in all the usual ways–eating until we waddled, piling crisp, amber leaves to jump into and rearranging the nine pairs of shoes on the backdoor shoe rack. No, wait, that’s just something our...