Tag: books
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Cookie Bakin’, Wreath Makin’, Doomsday Preppin’
The long Thanksgiving weekend was low-key for us. Thanksgiving was at my sister’s and was very nice. I brought the corn and also made honey-glazed carrots using carrots from the garden. We also made sugar cut-out cookies as a dessert for those who don’t like pie (the kids). So Thanksgiving morning was fun for me,…
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Trying New Things
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Sweet Freedom
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Food You Don’t Feel Good About
Tracing the origins of the food you buy can be maddeningly difficult, and what you find out can be depressing. This great expose of fraud and misrepresentations at “farm to table” restaurants and farmers’ markets by Laura Reiley in the Tampa Bay Times (thanks KF!) is a perfect example. Compelling read. I’d like to think…
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“April Is the Cruelest Month”
It’s Saturday, which means I’ve been sick for 10 days now. I’ve been to the doctor and it’s just a virus, but what a nasty, persistent one. I’ve been generally miserable. Besides ruining spring break, this cold has also made me miss the NCAA championship game, which my alma mater Villanova won in spectacular fashion,…
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The Seasons, They Go Round and Round
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Snowed In
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Christmas Reckoning
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Reading, Recycling, and Arugula
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So, A Needle Pulling Thread
Garden State of Mind 