My final new food of 2015 was the dragon fruit, or Pitaya, which includes the fruit of several species of night-blooming cacti in the genus Hylocereus, and which is quite delicious. Just slice in half, scoop out the flesh, slice, … Continue reading
Well, my volunteer activity for November definitely, absolutely changed the world. In an attempt to get a new type volunteering done within the month (each month it has to be a different type), I volunteered to wrap presents at the … Continue reading
Yampee. Yampee. I like having you in my life now. Welcome to the land of being broiled, and who knows what else. All because of a visit to a Korean supermarket, looking for a food adventure. I walked out with … Continue reading
Please don’t tell my dad I did this. (He rarely checks the blog, being a dawn-to-dusk-to-recliner farmer.) I originally planned to balloon with friends on my birthday almost two years ago, but the trip was rained out. Shortly after, a … Continue reading
An ironic next adventure. Last month’s new activity took me to the Martin Luther King Jr birthplace in Atlanta – the fighter for black civil rights in the 1960s. This work trip took me to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and to … Continue reading
Catch up time again – it has been amazingly busy, and with the gorgeous weather, who wants to really sit and write? But here are the adventures I tackled this month. The New Food: Sapotes, which is a word used … Continue reading
Yes, you are about to be inundated with images of big mammals and gorgeous landscapes from the Masai Mara in Kenya. But I am still going to post them, as a safari is an animal behaviorist’s (my training) dream, and … Continue reading
I revisited my hometown – really toured it – for the first time in 20 years. My parents moved away from Van Alstyne, Texas, to East Texas while I was in college in order to be closer to my grandmother, … Continue reading
Time for the new food for the month. This time, I really really liked it. The pepino melon, or pepino dulce (sweet cucumber) – purple and yellow/green on the outside, and a soft yellow on the inside that tastes of … Continue reading
Each month I try a new volunteer activity. This one was unexpected. I volunteered to help walk a balloon in the Cherry Blossom parade. So totally random. On such a beautiful day. We had to get there early – 7:30 … Continue reading
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