Confessions of a Stay at Home Aunt. Explore the beauty in the weirdness of life! The Woman Behind the Maven. In 2012 I experienced a most unusual baseball game between the Giants and the Yankees. During it I got to see a 5-run homer, a batter run the bases backwards, players skipping in the outfield and doing somersaults in the in-field.

After over 2 years of nearly daily posting, my life has evolved on and off the page. Together with one of my best friends, who literally lives on the other side of the world, in South Africa, we started a blog-azine called Campari and Sofa. I hope that those of you who stuck it out with me from the beginning and those of you who just got here through Freshly Pressed wi.

Saturday, October 14, 2017. This is a ship a couple days ago, heading out to the Gulf. Mornings, my friend Carol and I try to go for a walk along the Mississippi River. We walk about a mile upriver, just below the French Quarter, before turning back. The Port of New Orleans is still a vital economic engine, and on our morning walk we see its activity. Saturday, October 7, 2017.

Musings from the Middle Kingdom. Fashionably Early or Fashionably Late? March 26, 2018. Loobie Lu and John Doe would love you to join them for lunch. As the French would say! Often, I have got everything.

What Life is Really Like Behind the Hall Door. Not only did he co-found Ballymaloe Cookery School. With his sister Darina Allen in 1983, but he has also worked with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in California, he was the 2013 Winner of the André Simon Book Award for his book. And he has been the Ambassador of the Year for Good Food Ireland.