Entries by Marta Szabo

Rachel G.

“The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone’s knee. Years ago a child (usually a girl) would learn from her parent (usually her mother) by standing on a chair next to the stove and watching intently, or by wandering into the kitchen and begging to help.” ~Laurie Colwin […]

Chicken Pot Pie ~ Dec 24th 2025 cont

Today as I stood in a line on a cold Christmas Eve morning, I felt alive, energized and something new to me. I felt part of a community. A community of people gathered to pick up Christmas pies, cakes, cookies at the best local bakery in the area. Many of us underdressed for the cold, […]

Chicken Pot Pie

ALONE TOGETHER WRITINGS BY AUTHOR: CHICKEN POT PIE 1. Have you been gaslit one to many times? Can you trust yourself anymore, can you feel what your body is telling you? Can you listening to your inner voice, and can you hear it? Once you start listening to both your body and that inner quiet […]

Mallor C.

On tiny pieces of paper I’ve written my intentions for the year All rolled up in a bowl I pick one each day to burn Until the last Then on January 1 I read the final intention Aloud And keep it It’s an ancient Wiccan ritual That I learned about on Instagram Each morning I […]

Mountain

I find myself right on the brink again. It doesn’t matter that it’s Christmas. It would have happened anyway. But here I am, in a dangerous place, a really terrifying, to me, place of being on the brink of breaking with someone. It’s a pattern. I connect my train to someone else’s, thinking that together […]