For years, I’ve been making vegan carrot cakes from recipes I find online or from vegan cookbooks, but recently I wanted to play around and create my own recipe. The recipes I had been using were good, but I always found something I didn’t like about the recipes – either they were too springy/spongy, too […]
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Follow
On Death and Dying, or Mourning Maizy
At the beginning of October this past fall, we found out that sweet Maizy had a large cancerous tumor in her chest, surrounding her heart. She stayed in hospital for a couple of days, while they ran tests and tried to get her heart rate under control. We were able to bring her home – and continued […]
Piglets at Pigs Peace
I’ve been trying to decide what would be a good subject to blog about as a return to writing here on the blog. This has been a rough year for a number of reasons and, in the midst of everything, blogging has felt impossible. I’ve been doing lots of other writing this year, but somehow the idea […]
Goodbye to Charlotte
Charlotte died on Friday, and I feel really sad. She was a beautiful and expressive chicken, who was also bossy and opinionated – and a little cranky a lot of the time. I noticed she was looking a little droopy and not very energetic and, when we checked her out, we discovered that she was in […]
Red Lentil Artichoke Stew
Things with Maizy have been rough. She spent last Friday in the ICU trying to get her IBD under control. She’s stable for now and home with us. Her spirits are pretty good, and she’s been resting a lot at home. It was an emotionally taxing weekend for all of us. During stressful times like these, it’s nice […]
Reader Poll: Online Classes through Serenity in the Storm?
Good morning! It’s been a busy couple of weeks and I wanted to give you all a bit of an update. I was in Tampa the week before last for the annual Association of American Geographers meeting. It was the most exhausting week I’ve had in a long time on so many levels, but there were […]
Celebrating 100 Years. Saying Goodbye.
My grandma, Florence, died this morning. She would have turned 100 on the 19th of April. She died at home in Portland, which is what she wanted. And she got to live at home until the end, thanks to my uncles’ care and a number of caregivers who cared for her over the years. Part of […]
Cream of Broccoli Soup
A while back, a Serenity in the Storm reader wrote in to request an easy and quick cream of broccoli soup. I’ve been thinking about this recipe for a while and wanted to make something that had a really simple ingredients list and that didn’t use any substitutions (e.g., vegan cream, sour cream, etc.). I was surprised […]
Signs of Spring
It’s definitely feeling like spring here in Seattle. The crocuses are blooming all over the place. They’re so cheerful and pretty. And the daffodils (the little tiny ones) are just starting to bloom. The rhubarb in our garden is sprouting. It looks so weird and wrinkly as it unfolds. We have this lone little anemone blooming […]
Perpetual Mourning
Earlier this week, I witnessed a pigeon get run over by a car. Eric and I were in the car on our way to get some dinner and we noticed a pigeon in the middle of the street, wings flapping, struggling to right herself, clearly injured. In one instant, we took in the scene — […]