tonight’s dinner win:
Hungarian paprikash
with homemade spätzle


tonight’s dinner win:
Hungarian paprikash
with homemade spätzle


dear Daddy: i’m here.
pay attention to me, please.
(love you more than food)

today’s word: defeat
i should have stayed on pillows
and accepted it

it is not easy
to replicate restaurants
alas, we shall try

this quarantine brings
a new love for my kitchen
(lucky to have it)

even Bruce ate it
without a single worry
(there was no curry!)
my little artist
(not so little anymore)
always new designs


creating Christmas
from the tree to ornaments
all hand-made with love


dream school acceptance
in the midst of this nightmare
that’s 2020

what next, i wonder?
how will we survive all this
with all that we face?

the box comes early
before breath has settled us
into this next step

pup got his hair cut
and is a grinning puff ball
though he is chagrined


just a small difference:
American leftovers
versus Honduran


blue sky autumn day
blue as our new president
not perfect, but. still.

work interrupted
my man carving the turkey
so my boy stepped in

my girls made the pies
and set the grateful table
(we made this loss work)


just the six of us
celebrating our health
in a health-hell year
