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Once a month, the manfriend and I embark on a little thing we like to call, “No-Screen Sunday.” That means for an entire 24 hours, we aren’t allowed to look at, touch or most importantly, engage with any type of screen. No phones, no TV, no computer, no pieces of technology that are known to [...]

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Life, it seems, is moving at an utterly disorienting speed. This months have passed in a flurried blur of ordinary frenzy. I lay in bed clutching my beloved blankie and anticipating the ever-unknown future, feeling excited, anxious + happily exhausted for what lies ahead. Tonight, that’s a sink filled with dishes because an unfortunate fishy [...]

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I am not a good baker…nor really even a regular average baker. Baking requires a hefty pinch of patience and preciseness that I simply don’t possess. Cups must be packed and leveled. The batter must be folded gently and scooped carefully into baking tins. Ingredients are mixed in set ratios and proportions that my non-scientific [...]

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ON REMINDERS…

by Holly on August 7, 2012

in dessert,life,recipes,summer

Some days, I need lots of reminders. Because you know how sometimes you know things…but even though you know them, you don’t really put them into practice? Like, I know I should floss everyday to add years onto my life even though my teeth are lucky if they meet the minty string more than once [...]

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Change makes me a crazy person. Last night, while laying on the couch after a perfect rainy summer Saturday spent going to the farmer’s market, napping + making Joy the Baker’s Tomato Cobbler with Blue Cheese Biscuits, I suddenly found my poor lungs lurching for breath realizing the inevitable: I’m getting old. It’s not because [...]

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