Author Archives: Gigi

Your {Home} Work: The Kitchen

“Cooking as an art — ‘Hidden Art’, if you want to call it so – should be recognized and then developed in everyone who has to cook, wants to cook or could cook! Cooking should not be thought of as a drudgery but as an art.             The danger today.. […]

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Be Comforted, Dear Soul.

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott     This little island was hit with two major storms in the past week – what a fantastic experience! Yes, we lost power but we were prepared. I’m about to write some more of my thoughts of […]

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The Air We Breathe: Open your Windows

It’s -20c degrees outside right now.     And yet, every morning, each girl in this house opens their bedroom windows and air out their bedrooms. I open the kitchen windows slightly and have fresh air creeping in as I wash the breakfast dishes. Our bedroom window is opened, allowing beautiful clean air in to […]

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A Fine Winter

“Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful ev’ning in.” -The Task: The Winter Evening/William Cowper   […]

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Clear & Frosty

“The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed first stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.” –Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery   And just like that … […]

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