The Heart Of The Home

The kitchen has long been considered the heart of the home. In Roman times, the goddess Vesta, was invoked, via the Vestal Virgins who tended her eternal flame -symbolising the universal hearth - by women anxious to bring her comforts to their lives. Vesta responded to a home kept clean and sparkling! As I lit my fire, in my kitchen this morning, I thought of these women and all the women artists throughout history, who have tended to the cares of their homes and created only in the margins of their lives. How exciting to be a woman today! The field is wide open and our potential to achieve, has never been greater. A creature of habit, my morning begins in the kitchen. I brew a pot of espresso and journal for an hour, before coming in here. All my writing projects begin at my kitchen table. When my kids were babies, I'd wake an hour earlier, to steal a few extra moments with the muse. Now I have the freedom to create whenever I wish, but I always go back to the kitchen, to prime the pump!