crushed

The subject of crushes came up earlier this week when I was talking to my mom.  She’d asked about one of my friends and when I replied that the friend had a crush on a guy she’d recently met, Mom chuckled and said it just seemed odd that a girl/women who is nearly 30 would [...]

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blame Don Draper

I had every intention of telling y’all about my 4th of July weekend.  How we ended up on a boat one night.  How I ended up picking crabs in Annapolis one day.  How we watched fireworks at Quantico and how I finally made it to see the Nats (against the Braves).  Or to tell you [...]

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bake your cares away – Heritage Bundt Cake

As I’ve mentioned a time or twenty, Abby got me a beautiful bundt pan for my birthday (probably just to save me the shame of going to stare at the pan every time I walked by Williams-Sonoma).  I hadn’t had a chance to bake anything in it yet (see: South Beach diet), until last week, [...]

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do-over?

I promise I don’t work for Southern Living.  If I did, I’d be floating around on a cloud all day.  Today, I was checking their Tales from the Road blog and came across a post for a Southern Bucket List.  Which made me realize a couple of things.  First, for a proud Southerner, I’ve apparently [...]

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and the world turned

Since we last talked I’ve done a lot of stuff.  There were boats and crabs and fireworks and baseball and I need a vacation from my 3-day 4th of July holiday.  And hopefully, I’ll get my stuff together to actually post some stuff about all the independence day revelry that went on, but in the [...]

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