soulmates

I love magazines.  I’m not particularly picky about which one.  I’ve had subscriptions to YM, Teen, Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Self, Shape, and Saveur (and those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head).  However, there is one magazine that stands alone.  That if I could only have one [...]

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bake your cares away: strawberry shortcake

It all started innocently enough.  A simple email saying we should do family dinner last Sunday night.  Which snowballed from something low-key and simple to a weekend making barbecue, a trip to the farmer’s market for fresh produce, and topped off with homemade strawberry shortcake.  I meandered my way to making strawberry shortcake, from banana [...]

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the way he made us feel

I was planning on posting about strawberry shortcake today (and still very may will), but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Michael Jackson’s passing.  Linda Holmes at NPR’s Monkey See has a great post up memorializing MJ and talking about his 1983 performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25 special, and, as usual, [...]

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mom

My Mom’s birthday was Saturday.  She was in Chilhowie and I was in Arlington.  We’ve definitely had our ups and downs – my sister says this is because we’re too much alike.  Usually, if I’m home for more than 36 hours, there is some sort of screaming or fighting or sassing involved.  I’m sure that [...]

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infinite summer? more like infinite fail #infsum

For the last few weeks, I kept seeing folks on twitter mention that they were thinking about/had been convinced to/were participating in “infinite summer.” Being that I am completely clueless about a lot of stuff, I assumed this was some sort of list of summer related things or maybe a summer cocktail circuit and thought [...]

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have you ever…

Have you ever had a day so full of frustrations and road blocks that you’re worried that one of the following may happen:
1. steam shooting directly out of your ears?
2. your head popping off in a final fit of rage?
3. having a stroke because the stress and frustration has sent your blood pressure through the [...]

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writer’s block

I’ve got stuff I want to talk about with y’all (or at y’all), but I can’t seem to get the words to make sense.  I want to tell you about mine and Maureen’s dinner at Taverna Cretecou in Old Town.  About how the neverending rain is driving me insane.  About making no-bake cookies and ice [...]

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missing

As I expected, my first week back from vacation has been rough.  I hope to goodness I’m not the only person who usually suffers from a post-vacation funk.  Honestly, I think I was in a bit of a funk pre-vacation – I was missing home (who wouldn’t miss views like this and cool mountain air?); [...]

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