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감사합니다
I’m thankful for home. I’m grateful to be surrounded by love and warmth and family. This brief respite has been much needed, and much appreciated. It saddens me to leave (tomorrow), but I am comforted...
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5-Star
Let’s pretend to be sophisticated and make grown-up candies this holiday season. Here’s something funny annoying that I know I’m going to end up doing this winter. I’ve had many no-bake things that...
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Peppy Pip
“That morning Pippi was busy making pepparkakor–a kind of Swedish cookie. She had made an enormous amount of dough and rolled it out on the kitchen floor. Because, said Pippi to her little monkey,...
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Slump, Grunt, Buckle
Snorfle, sniffle, slurp. Can we take a moment to appreciate the ridiculous names bestowed upon cobblers, crisps, and the like? Betty, buckle, cobbler, crisp, crumble, grunt, pandowdy, slump,...
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Ironic
It’s Spring! That’s spring with a capital S, because it was official as of March 20th. And yet here I am sharing a treat that’s chock full of fall fruit. While in the tropics, feasting on pineapple...
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Tårta
O, Pivoine From verdant buds they did erupt; from tight globes came flowers flush. O, the peonies blossomed, fat and full, on a day that promised rain. A hundred thousand petals unfurled as a misty...
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Mango Tango
Current mood: pain. I just got my wisdom teeth out. Boy, was I glad that there were a few of these popsicles in reserve. I am so doped out on Vicodin that I don’t have the energy to type up a whole...
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Serendipitous
Hey there, Autumn. I thought I’d share some things that I’m loving and coveting right now. Some hover on the edge of the seasons, some I share with autumnal intent, and some for plain old adoration....
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Better Late
“Your problem is you are too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” Ram Dass It must seem as if I’ve fallen off the face of the earth, or dived to the depths of the sweet, cold ocean only to resurface,...
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Bring It
T-minus 2. My favorite holiday is in two (2!) days, and I’m headed home this evening. Boy, am I excited. (This is definitely me. My dad sent me this link; no explanation needed.) I’ve got my menu...
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Love is Real
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a...
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Everything But
“Please understand that I am in full rebellion against my own mind; that when I live I live by impulse, by emotion, by white heat.” —Anaïs Nin, Henry and June The French, in their effortless elegance,...
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Spooky Spooky
There’s a ghost in my lungs and it sighs in my sleep, Wraps itself around my chest as it softly weeps. Then it walks, then it walks with my legs To fall, to fall, to fall at your feet. There but for...
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Abóbora
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” —Julia Child Happy Thanksgiving! Today, I’m crazy busy cooking and baking a feast for my family… I’ve been cooking since I got home on Tuesday...
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A Covey of Cookies
“Today, me will live in the moment unless it’s unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie.” —Cookie Monster For me, baking Christmas cookies for all my loved ones is a necessity as much as a...
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Garden of Thorns
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. —Rainer Maria Rilke Happy Valentine’s Day, dearest readers! Today, I am feeling lazy...
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Honey In the Sun
A half full moon in Mexico City I think of you And when I saw the Southern Cross I wished you had too I wish my heart was as cold as the morning dew But it’s as warm as saxophones and honey in the sun...
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Épicé
“Always winter, never Christmas.” —C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe If you need some last-minute inspiration for your cookie boxes, I have rounded up some links of cookies that I’ve...
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La Noix de Muscade
“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law....
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Proportion
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allan Poe It’s Autumn. The days are cool and bed is extra cozy. Finally, even New York City is bearable. It’s time...
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