Brownie Mix

A couple of days ago March and I were yakking about When You Crave Chemicals. A friend had come by, bearing brownies – and they were gorgeous!  Snappy chocolate sheen, dark moistness….I viewed them with approbation..then I bit into one.… Continue Reading

City Mouse, Mariage Freres & the Merida Candle

First off, thank you all SO much for stumbling along with me last week – I’m sorry I didn’t respond to your lovely comments but I leapt into mah vee-hickle to get to Chicago…. …and therein lies a tale.. So..I… Continue Reading

Saturdays Francine..or whither Courreges?? A Mystery

    Summer is traditionally the time of year when my friends come to call – the garden is in bloom, streams are running, butterflies and hummingbirds fill the air, we can sit outside and drink hibiscus lemonade and I… Continue Reading

Snips and Snaps

  OMG!  It’s ANOTHER ‘Hibernation’ post!  Sorry.  But I, too, am in the scent doldrums; not the perfume per se, more my inability to focus long enough to do a perfume justice in any sort of review.  I’m sloooooowly coming… Continue Reading

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie

There’s something (still)  wrong with my computer – I can’t download photos so you get no gorgeous  vizs of burgers, ribs, potato salad, cole slaw…oh, yes…it’s that Most Wonderful Time of the Year:  Fourth of Ju-ly!  I love this holiday … Continue Reading

apres (moi) le deluge

It’s been just ridiculous here, with straight-line winds and tornadoes and torrential downpours just appearing out of nowhere…more widespread flooding …the ground so wet you can hear it squelch as you walk across the lawn…ick.  I mean, I’m all about… Continue Reading

Life, Near-Death and Chanel No 18

Oh, Posse…. It has been such a rollercoaster ride these past few weeks; I think (pray) we’re coming out of it but it has exhausted me to the point where I had to take a couple of days and just… Continue Reading