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An Interview with Amy Thielen
Alternately Titled: Why I Wish I had Cable Amy Thielen is a chef, author, and host of Food Network’s Heartland Table. She is also a native Minnesotan, which, in my opinion, is her real claim to fame....
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News from the Stoop {and an e-Book Recommendation}
There’s not a whole lot of news, actually. That crack in the concrete’s my new BFF. We’ve been hanging out ALL summer. Which, frankly, is how I like it. This is me on my front stoop: {photo taken by...
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Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and why I’m doing another Whole30
Merry Christmas! Are you having as much fun policing board game pieces as I am? One of my New Year’s resolutions is to worry less about the mess and actually play the board games with them, which is...
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A Kid, a Couch, a Path, Destruction
(To his credit, that rip was already there.) Happy New Year, everyone! Any advice on where to get a nice couch? I am in earnest when I ask this, as we desperately need something more…intact than this...
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An Apple a Day {Eaten Mindfully}
Or: On Taking the KonMari Approach to my 2nd Whole30 The Why’s, the How’s, the Care to Join me? First, I’ve already explained the Whole30 program here: My First Whole30. Start with that post and then...
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Life Hacks vs. Life-Robbing
(along with a smattering of this and that) The back-to-school ads are starting back up already. Like seeing Christmas displays on the heels on Halloween discounts, I’m feeling pushed in a direction I’m...
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Through Him and With Him in the Kitchen
How’s your Lent going? Personally, I am really clinging to the February issue of Magnificat magazine—an emotional “clinging” rather than physical, mind you, as I am forever misplacing my copy! It’s...
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Leap Day Loveliness
True story: I was going to call this post “Leap Day Lunacy” but figured that title would scare you off. I’m all about being encouraging, you know? Because the truth is, we are crazy. Why else...
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Making a Clean Sweep for Spring!
Or: That Time these People Saved my Space When Eric Rogers, owner of White Lotus Cleaning in Minneapolis, emailed to ask if I’d like a free spring cleaning in exchange for a review, I didn’t...
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On Giving Thanks for the Gilmore Girls: my Netflix in November Review
Posted, as is this procrastinator’s way, on the FIRST day of December because…you know…the holidays. Visiting Grandma (my Mom) at the Nursing Home. Oh my goodness, it was bittersweet! Do you ever feel...
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