I’m trying to get things back into line after being away so much of May and June. It’s going to take a while, and I appreciate the private comments and emails folks have sent. It means a lot to me that I had the opportunity to spend as much time as I did with my mom at the end, and now through the grieving process – more for what could have been than what was – it’s nice to know I’ve got people I can sound things off of…
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Still on my low and no sodium recipe searches! I use the following spice mixes – well, the commercial ones, anwyay – regularly, and the sodium content in them is astronomical! So between google, cookbooks and fiddling around on my own, here’s my top four. Now if I could only find low-salt Frank’s Red Hot, I’d be a happy girl.

Yesterday, my mom took her last breath and is now – finally – at peace.

The first of once-monthly free fiction, we’ll start with the story of a young woman, pregnant and overdue, trying to run a small hobby farm. With the help of her family, she learns to believe in small miracles once more…

Everything is still out of whack here, but rather than have a pretty much empty blog this week, I’ve been taking a few moments here and there to get some posts prepped and posted.
Gettin’ back into my groove, so to speak. That said, here are the prompts for this week, and many apologies for missing last week!