Polly Castor

I work to amplify good wherever I find it. I love color, texture, beauty, great ideas, nature, metaphor, deliciousness, genuine spirituality, and exploring new territory. I encourage authenticity, nurture creativity, champion sustainability, promote peace, and hope to foster a new renaissance where we all are free to be our most fulfilled, multifaceted, and terrific selves. Read more here.

Retrospective of My First Box-A-Day Art Journal

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This Box-A-Day Art Journal of mine spans 478 days from May 9, 2008 through August 30, 2009. This project has been restorative and therapeutic, inspiring and revealing, growth inducing and thought provoking, enhancing awareness of good and observation of life. I strongly endorse it as an artistic outlet and a daily spiritual discipline. What a … Read more

Our Glorious Tomatoes

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This has been a notoriously bad year for tomatoes because it rained for the first six weeks of summer and was too cold for these plants who wanted steamy hot sunshine in which to grow. I hear of many plants blighted, and poor or nonexistent yields. Given the fact that we planted sixteen plants, maybe … Read more

Photos of Eating Out in Annapolis

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Restaurant food in Annapolis was good. I only ate out once a day, otherwise subsisting on Luna bars and motel buffet yogurt, but when I did, I enjoyed it! The dish shown above was Parmesan encrusted salmon on green bean risotto with roasted red pepper sauce and pesto garnish. Below, were two night’s worth (at … Read more

My Son’s 15th Birthday

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We’ve been celebrating this all week around the college delivery. We had a combined farewell dinner/15th birthday dinner out before his sister left when she gave him her present of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution: both poster-sized on parchment. While I was driving home from Annapolis, he had some friends to swim at … Read more

Big Day: College Drop-off

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Well, we finally pulled out of the driveway and drove to Annapolis. My daughter burned CD selections on the way for us to listen to, which included everything from tango music to Techno. My favorite choice was Julie Andrews singing “Confidence” from the Sound of Music where she has “confidence in confidence alone” as she … Read more

Recipe: Peach Cobbler

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  By way of an update on our peach tree – I mentioned that we had lots, and I wasn’t exaggerating – the tree was so burdened with peaches that the largest branch of them actually broke off under the weight and came crashing down! This cobbler is the first thing we made with our … Read more