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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What is it about a handmade quilt? A common gift in the South, these patchwork tapestries are the first thing that we reach …
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On my bedside table sits a rock. Yes, you read that correctly, a rock. Not a beautiful leather-bound journal or a delicate tray …