Growing up, my family moved quite a bit. I lived in the midwest for most of my childhood and then spent my teenage…
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It is Mother’s Day evening, and all the celebrations are winding down. The day has been lovely, restful, and productive, the best combination.…
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It is the first official day of spring, and our local weather is showing off. Today the high is hitting above 70 degrees,…
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It is Christmas night, and I finally attend to all the dishes and platters that accumulated after an entire day of cooking and…
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It is a rainy Thanksgiving evening when I follow Ansley McGukin up the sidewalk to the cottage that she and her new husband,…
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Several weeks ago, I stumbled across the ad for an event called Music on Main, taking place in one of my hometowns. I…
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My nightstand clock shows it is close to midnight and I am trying desperately to relax enough to fall asleep. The summer heat…
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I have often thought of my life in terms of a jigsaw puzzle. If I dumped the pieces of my life out on…
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“Want to hear a story?” my dad quietly asks between sips of coffee. “Always,” I say. We sit in a small café and…
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Every autumn I find myself facing the same problem: I am completely lost about what to cook for the humans that call my…
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