Orphan Earrings

Let's start a FAD - unmatched earrings. These earrings of mine have lost their partners through a fault of my own. Actually, I've perfected loosing things to a fine art, so I'm hoping someone 'out there' will come up with the mate. I'm ready to wear them anyway - these were all old favorites. *shed a tear* Add some of your own orphans too. I think I have to allow you to post to my board. If so, let me know.

MiFi Advantages but be wary of Usage Charges

MiFi Advantages but be wary of Usage Charges

A trial: a recipe box linked to recipes in my Striped Pot reviews.

This post is part of an experiment. I am a travel writer, but due to the passing of time, I can no longer globe trot, or even push my walker very far around town. Instead, I pull on my thousands of photos and journals to tell of places that may be overlooked today. Invariably, food comes into the picture.

Cuisine is a distinguishing characteristic to all countries; some is elegant, some plain, but there is always a unique feature. I will try to capture and put them in a virtual recipe box for you to see, and hopefully, try.

Photo: my recipe box - red. I checked Dreamstime's photo library: any good images cost 3 credits and I have a perfectly good recipe box - actually better, because it's a real one, complete with dents, smudges, and finger prints. It dates back to 1952 (59 years ago).

It is more than a list of recipes; it is a journal of friends and places. Each one comes laden with memories; some mundane but tasty, others quite adventurous. They represent trips taken, parties enjoyed, holidays celebrated.

Each one has a story, and I would like to share them with you. If you have any requests for a dish, one you remember from somewhere and can list a few basic ingredients, let me know and I will see if I can find it. Knowing the particular inn or restaurant would help.

It may be awhile before you will be able to access the recipes as the file is just being set up. If you subscribe to my posts, I'll send you an e-mail announcing it's "opening" - thanks for being here! Gail

Here is the box, bless its little overstuffed heart:

Florida Revisited

The pot's been sitting there a long time; too long.

I'll be adding more now though, as I'm revisiting my years in Florida for a series on The Many Faces of Florida being published on Striped Pot, a new online travel magazine. Striped Pot was started as a co-op of several experienced travel writers who had been "meeting" in their Google Group.

As a group, we represent many parts of the world and lovers of various genres of travel: adventure, luxury, romantic, budget, family and senior.

My first few articles were related to our present home, Vermont. One day, looking through some old photos, I realized I know more, much more about Florida from the years I had lived and worked there in the travel business.

I'd visited Florida since my early teens, staying in the heart of Citrus County. Later, as a golfer, I ranged the coast from Fernandina Beach, around the keys, and back up as far as Venice, where I settled down for thirteen years. It was during this time I started "The Get-Away-Gang" for GM Travel. Tourists would walk in and ask if we had a day trips. At that time, there were no local companies doing this so I asked my boss if I could rent a van and start some. Boss Barbara Dunham nodded her head and the Gang was born.

I had a ball! But that's going to be thrown into the pot. It's lunch time and Cor has a wonderful appetite - must keep it satisfied.

The stew started with a few carrots, lots of spice and a few lemons.

Welcome to the Stew Pot of Life: "a bit o' this and a bit o' that" and where we go from here, nobody knows.

But I hope everyone will throw in a line or two; maybe a story, maybe a photo - keep the pot boiling.  So come along and let's see where this takes us.


Ask questions, share good ideas for vacations, etc. Do you have a good recipe for zucchini bread (that's a joke - when zucchini first became 'yuppie' - around the late '60s, everybody was dropping off excess zucchinis in your car, at your doorstep, anywhere. There were so many, we all started making our own versions of zucchini bread.)


So stir up a few topics for us while I go get the bread out of the oven.