Nice to meet you…

My professional training is in anthropology, archaeology, and chemistry, where I learned to bridge the gap among spirituality, sociology, and the hard sciences. When I am not travelling, I grow plants, harvest my produce and herbs, forage for wild foods, and cook in my magic kitchen. I have been creating food and experimenting with flavor profiles for thirty years, since I was a curious girl preparing “potions” in my grandmother’s kitchen.

I currently live in a historic home on top of a hill in a small New England town with my lovely husband/best friend and our two furry children.

Not too long ago, I resigned from my corporate job to pursue a life of slow, simple pleasures and dedicate quality time to my mindful food and slow travel blog where I write about my food and travels and share my recipes and photography.

I don’t know if I want to call myself a writer or a photographer or a blogger, a traveler or a homemaker, because I am all those things and none of them. I am just me, a creative being with an adventurous spirit, a sensible soul, and curious nature. I believe that, if you are in fact reading these words, you and I are not that different.

I am searching for the extraordinary in the mundane, the ineffable in the attainable, undisclosed secrets in a discreet chest of drawers.

I am exploring the meaning of simplicity, tranquility, and sustainability in a busy, deafening, pragmatic, algorithmic world. This materialistic, chaotic world.

I am asking myself if a slow existence is indeed possible. I pause to ponder the question fully, pause to take in the silence, reflect, and listen, to look at the blinding brightness waiting outside my window.

Not my world; mine is mindful, whimsical, blissful, and maybe not that “real”. And if it isn’t all that real, it’s fine by me. It is mine, perhaps yours, too. My world is the place where magic and reality are tangled like old unused yarn waiting to be discovered and woven into something ordinarily beautiful.

After a decade of amazing experiences in travel, culture, food, and everyday life, my husband Chris and I have reached a point where we no longer find joy in material possessions and wealth accumulation. We yearn for a slow lifestyle filled with meaningful moments to share with a community of like-minded individuals. We seek happiness through travel and experiences, through simple mundane actions. The magic of cooking, promenading, tending to plants, and capturing an instant in a photograph are the actions that keep us grounded and serene.

Life has a way of taking us in unknown directions, and these past few years have made that painfully obvious for much of the world through more war, famine, pandemics, climate change, and a global collapse of the economy. Haven’t we reached a point where slowing down and reconnecting to our roots has become vital to the survival of our species? What’s happened to the traditional knowledge passed down through many generations that have we seemingly lost?

We strive for a sustainable, slow lifestyle that respects nature and all the living beings that inhabit it. Though our recipes and photography, we want to share our daily story and spread the message that happiness and magic are real and worth pursuing not just for self-preservation but also to create a thriving, vibrant, and healthy community.

We hope you enjoy our story. If you are like us we hope you can relate and that you share your own, if you have yet to take life on in the way you want, we hope this inspires you to take those initial steps. No matter what comes your way, live a life you love.

Yours truly,

G.