It's good to lose. It's the polishing of a stone, roughing out the jagged edges and making the lines smooth. It's the sanding of wood to remove splinters for a clean surface for the beauty and safety of a wood-grain. It's growth of a plant plucked from poor soil to be placed in fertile ground to grow strong so that it bears fruit. It's a broken glass getting glued to … [Read more...]
My Father’s Eyes
Skirt in the Kitchen/My Father's Foods 'My Father's Eyes' - Song & Artist: He Knows My Name by Francesca Battistelli Mercy Ministries, Nashville, TN … [Read more...]
She Will Survive
'She Will Survive' - Rose-Colored Glasses (28) Song & Artist: Flower by Jewel … [Read more...]
Rose-Colored Glasses (28)
Come take a walk with me through rose-colored glasses. Put on a pink lens, let's walk into Spring. Open the door. We'll go up a long road and walk the afternoon away, no particular place to be but here--with you. See purple blooms and clover, green grass and crop rows ... white gravel under our feet. We can make it a rose-colored world. Let's run … [Read more...]
Cabbage Breakfast Wraps
This is good for a late breakfast on Saturday, when you don't have to run out the door in a hurry like you would a weekday--when you've got plenty of time to cook breakfast at home and enjoy it. When I think of Spring, I think of crisp greens with morning bacon--particularly cabbage. There must be onion. And, of course--peppers. Have either apple or pear for … [Read more...]
Spring Fling
Spring Fling on Skirt in the Kitchen, All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You by Halestorm on SKIRT RADIO … [Read more...]
Oat Pecan Fruit Muffins
(Grandmother Anita and Mother) My mother's mother, Grandmother Anita, clipped recipes as often as she cut coupons and sale ads. She was always writing on paper--notes of ideas that she had thought of doing; some of them dreams. Those dreams became plans, whether or not she got to live them through or simply just kept them on a writing tablet or loose notebook … [Read more...]
Cayden the Kid
Have you said goodbye? Sure you have. You had to. You were even forced to say goodbye and then let go--from life as you knew it and felt comfortable knowing, because of life. Whether or not you could or would be able to when it was expected of you... It went against the force, against your willingness because there being no other option. What then? You had to give in, to … [Read more...]
Begin Again
This might be a good place to start, to begin again--right where you are. No other place. No matter what's cracked, what's been broken, whatever got separated--just begin again. Might be difficult, no doubt, tough... But sometimes, some of the hardest things that are worth getting through, worth getting over, "to deal with" require starting over again--like a new day, … [Read more...]
Branding Made Possible
Branding Made Possible - Skirt in the Kitchen Song & Artist: Humble And Kind by Tim McGraw … [Read more...]