There is nothing that I enjoy more than hunkering down with a good book and losing myself to the world of fiction. I love painting pictures in my mind of the characters and various scenes as they unfold on the pages of whatever book I am reading. I can’t tell you how excited I was when I […]
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Vegan Avocado Chickpea Salad
I’m sure all of us have those recipes that we make often but never write down. You know the ones – that you just throw together, and it may taste a little different each time you make it. For me, that recipe is this avocado-chickpea salad. The first time I made it, Dennis and I […]
Plastic-free Vegan; A Journey, Part I. The Impetus.
I am the author of three vegan cookbooks, mother to three children, guardian to three cats, and wife to one husband. Over the past year I have been contemplating, and even reducing and refusing, plastic in my life, and over the course of this time it has dawned on me how difficult it is to […]
Soak Up the End of Summer with the Vegan Cuts Beauty Box!
It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over. I can always tell when another month is coming to an end when I find the Vegan Cuts Beauty Box waiting for me in my mailbox. The Vegan Cuts Beauty Box is a subscription beauty box service. Each box is full of 4 to 7 cruelty-free cosmetics […]
Roasted Beet and Citrus Salad
The Office ended its nine year run in 2013, and I stuck with it to the bitter end. I felt a special connection to the show, as I was the art director for a paper company for six and a half years. We sold scrapbooking supplies and stationery rather than copier paper, but there were […]