You can seize the day, but you can’t stop time. The flower that blooms today droops tomorrow. Fleeting moments flash by with ever-increasing velocity. How can you put the brakes on the gravitational pull of time passing? That’s the billion dollar question. When you figure out the answer, please enlighten all of us here on JC. Meanwhile, carpe diem with this…
Sardines on the BBQ for a Portuguese Moment
I’ve never been to Portugal. My sister lived in the Algarve, in Valdomos–Valley of the Owls, 13 kms from Messines, where she got fabulous fresh seafood at the market and fresh bread the size of a chair. For several years, she grew her own oranges, lemons, tomatoes, almonds, figs, olives and herbs. She made fig…