I’m collecting recipes that are easy and affordable for today’s times.  Here’s one of my grandmother’s Depression-era recipes.  She called it Poor Man’s Bread.
1 Cup flour
1 Teaspoon baking soda
Water
Stir in enough water to make a batter and pour into a greased skillet.  (Grandma said to use a cast iron skillet.)  Fry until brown on each [...]

It’s a day’s work moving me from my soft and pillowed spot on the couch to somewhere else … especially when that somewhere is away from the house. Before … when we had only Lily the Cat and we didn’t have Scarlett the Dog and Wilson the Other Dog, and Before, when I had two [...]

This is a DELICIOUS day.  Saturday.  From my vantage point, I can look out onto our small inset patio.  It’s along the narrow side of our back yard and is ringed with Queen Palms, an Ocotillo with its little ovate leaves swaying in a rare breeze, iridescent flowers set atop the arms of a needle-sharp [...]

The thing no one tells you about being on the injured list is that the television remote is REALLY not your friend.  Especially if you’re a news junkie like me and the news these days causes the “F” word to spill from your pristine lips faster than a glass of grape juice spills in the [...]

We’ve all settled down here in our humble Bloggybirdery after yesterday’s big excitement.  This little writer can only tap out a one-legged Happy Dance for so long.  So it’s now back to my spot on the couch, screaming at today’s latest economic meltdown news on the television and wishing I could get to that nice [...]

I’ve learned that one can actually be flat down on a couch, one leg stuck in the air … and still perform The Happy Dance!
Long before becoming your humble bloggy bird here at DancingBirds.com, I spent over ten years working directly with homeless and at-risk individuals.  I founded and continue to serve as Executive Director [...]

After laying low the past couple of days, I’m back this morning balancing a laptop on my chest while keeping my left leg in the air and my heart in my throat.  Literal and financial hurricanes are kind of making a mess of things.  Be safe everyone.  Me?  I’m just trying not to accidentally give [...]

Dan brought home flowers for me yesterday.  “Look what I found in the street,” he said all winking and smiling and waving them like a blessing over me as I struggled to sit up from my couch-o-torture.  I LOVE flowers!  But I love this man more than any flower ever grown.  All this week, we’ve [...]

Yesterday I got a lovely get well card from my big sister.  She’s the one who claimed me as her very own baby doll, taking me from our mother’s arms and had to be bribed with candy before she’d give me back.  She’s the one who, when I was sick with Rheumatic Fever and totally [...]

One of my favorite paintings is Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night.  His magnum opus, this brilliant painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night.  Oddly, a woman stuck on her living room couch with her leg stuck in the air and her own window’s view of nights passing overhead has its own [...]