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Bay Area Trip
I realized I never wrote about our northern California trip in September! Cadillac went with me to an event and we also audited a bunch of offices. I don’t mean we– he did– I sat in the car. We managed to sneak in a side trip to San Francisco. Actually, we went there twice– Cadillac…
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Make Your Own Homemade Peanut Butter, Salmonella (hopefully) not included
Salmonella found in peanut butter/almond butter/ cashew butter! Eek! There’s a long list here, and it’s not just at Trader Joe’s and it’s not just non-organic. I pulled out our peanut butter from Costco and found it on the list. We’ve already eaten half a container, but I called my local Costco and they said…
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The Honey Badger of Breastfeeding
I am long past my breastfeeding days, but a couple of my close friends are pregnant, and it’s been in the news with the (non-case) of the breastfeeding professor, so I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Admittedly, most of my early-parent time is a haze– friends ask me how I potty trained or got…
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Bakersfield and Tehachapi
Cadillac said a couple weeks ago that he had to go to Bakersfield to audit some offices. At first I thought he’d become a Scientologist (da-dum-dum!) but then learned he had to go look at paperwork in credit unions and banks or something like that. I don’t really know. He starts talking about work, which…
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Women’s Fiction Writers Interview
Amy Sue Nathan interviewed me on her blog yesterday. I love the title she came up with! Go check it out.
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Homework Woes
I’d like to begin this post by saying I don’t think my kids have too much homework. I am trying to figure out a way to get my 7-year-old to do her homework without dissolving into a whiny puddle of tears. She has about 3 pages of homework a night; one math (two sided) and…
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Going Home Again
Who says you can’t go home again? I did just that last week when I visited the San Carlos Library, my old childhood haunt. It’s where I went for the A/C in the summer, where I spent frantic last minutes searching through card catalogs for research papers due the next day, where I pretty much…
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A “Roses” Sermon
My friend Kathy Patrick of Beauty and the Book and the Pulpwood Queens wrote to me a couple weeks ago, letting me know that her pastor, Allison Byerly, used The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns in her Sunday sermon in Jefferson, Texas. How cool is that? She cited page 251, where Dara talks…
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Stealth Shabby Chic
I bought this bird cage, pictured below. It had a fake metal bird in it (obviously fake,duh, it’s metal) so I took it out and stuck this plant in here. My husband doesn’t know it, but I like shabby chic. There probably aren’t many men who are fans of the style. It’s very floral and…
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