by Molly Niles Renshaw | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog, Bookclub
I hadn’t heard about Mindy Pelz until a few weeks ago when I was listening to a podcast about menopause, a subject that interests me greatly, since I’m teetering on that peri-menopause/menopause crater. Having just turned 50, I actually don’t have any real menopause...
by Molly Niles Renshaw | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog, Green Living, The Tarry Life
Spring is in the air! It’s the season for growth, color, vibrancy, and renewal. But it’s not all baby birds chirping in nests and perennial buds breaking through the ground after a long winter’s nap. All those seeds and sprouts and pollen also usher in a season of...
by Molly Niles Renshaw | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog, Tarry Tales
I’m no Catholic but I’m giving up sweets for Lent. I talk a lot about intuitive eating and my hate of dieting. The second you tell me I can’t have something, I go into this dark place of deprivation and craving. It’s nuts. For more than a...
by Molly Niles Renshaw | Feb 27, 2023 | Blog, Food
Mammy’s Hearty Vegetable Beef Stew This is our all-time favorite comfort soup. Our grandmother, affectionately known as “Mammy,” first introduced it to us. She got the recipe from a proprietor of a B&B she and her family stayed at in Myrtle Beach,...
by Molly Niles Renshaw | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog, People, Tarry Tales, The Tarry Life
I turned fifty this week and I’ve been reflecting. If I had known at 25 or 33 or 37, ages where I felt “old” (mostly because I wasn’t where I wanted to be yet), that I would feel so young and so good at 50, I would’ve relaxed a lot more back then. Warrior II on my...