by Karen | Jul 15, 2022 | All, Blog, Chip, Death and Dying, Married Life, Still Cooking, Stories
It has been 365 days since I heard your heartbeat for the last time. I held your hand in the OR, and my head was on your chest when they called the time of death. My heart stopped then too. You read about these stories of loss and grief, but like so many other life...
by Karen | Jun 19, 2022 | All, Blog, Chip, Stories
Love does. It takes more than a biological chain of events to make a human and become a father. A father is more than that; men can become fathers without biology. Men that adopt babies or children love those kids as if they were “their own.” A father is a person who...
by Karen | May 29, 2022 | All, Appetizers, Blog, Cheese Heals, Food and Cooking
Nettle Meadow’s Kunik Triple Cream is fantastic. It is early on Sunday morning, Memorial Day Weekend. I have already walked 2.5 miles and had breakfast with Tillie. “Tillie’s House,” as we call it, has a beautiful front porch with rocking chairs and a breeze. What...
by Karen | May 18, 2022 | All, Blog, Cheese Heals, Chip, Drinks
(I wrote this on Saturday, May 14th, but I just could not post it till today) Today is the 36th anniversary of our first date. Our first date is the calendar date I celebrate most because without that first date, there would be no wedding date, no anniversary, or the...
by Karen | May 8, 2022 | All, Blog, Chip, Still Cooking, Stories
There is not a day, nor frankly, a moment that goes by that I don’t feel the unfathomable loss of Chip. It hits me when I attempt the mind and body quiet of yoga. It is a stab in the heart when I am alone in the cheese section of Wegmans. It is a pain to see my...
by Karen | May 5, 2022 | All, Appetizers, Blog, Cheese Heals
Amelia and Nick, aka Skates, met me at Wegmans in Dewitt, NY, before meeting up with Jack and his friends at Twin Trees Too in Solvay, NY. Chip and I loved to go to Wegmans, and we basked in the selection of cheeses. We would talk about what we would make with them or...