Our Louie turned five today. He and I are a lot alike. Besides being extremely funny and very good looking, we both have big feelings. Our similarities make being his parent difficult sometimes and other times I feel like I’m watching myself and understand him deeply. He is bright and thoughtful and creative. He...
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Once I was visiting family for the weekend and decided to make pizza for dinner. I made a huge batch of dough. Enough to make four large pizzas. We had a big group eating so I needed a lot. After mixing and kneading for ten minutes I placed a damp cloth on the dough...
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Don’t ignore the negative. See it for what it is and find a way through or around or beyond. Be careful what you put out into the world. Ask yourself what is your intention? Are you making the world better or worse by doing so? Do something. Build something. Create as much as you...
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I’ve been mulling over this idea of producing more than you consume for a few days now. Since I’ve started writing and posting again every day I’ve felt a weight lifting from my heart. Doing what I love every day and sharing it with the few but mighty people who follow my blog has...
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Some nights are just chaos. Nothing works. Everyone is on edge. It feels overwhelming. All you can do is survive. Forgive. Forget. Tomorrow is another day. Another day to remember you’re not in this alone....
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I watched this really neat clip of Jon Mayer improvising a song during an interview a couple days ago. It shows Jon basically riffing and making up lyrics on the spot which “requires a stupid bravery all the time.” He essentially creates a song out of nowhere by letting go of fear and bypassing...
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Tonight after an evening of blackberry pie and fresh crab and cousins playing in the grass we saw a rainbow. It stretched clear across the sky. Faint at first and then brighter. And the sunset was gorgeous too. I captured a beautiful picture of three of the cousins holding hands looking out across the...
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I made an apple pie tonight. The apples came from a tree in the woods. An unlikely tree for apple pie making. And certainly not apples you would want to eat to look at. The skin is gnarly and rough in patches. They grow away from the rest of the fruit trees. But for...
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We’ll pick blackberries. And play in the sun. And eat popsicles and cookies. And run wild in the last stretches of a Pacific Northwest summer. We’ll have movie night. Eat popcorn snuggled up together on the couch. I’ll text my friends something funny. I’ll show the boys a cat video. We will live. Love...
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I have had a good crop of basil this year. I used it to make pesto for a pesto chicken pizza tonight, which turned out splendidly. I have loved cooking for a long time and gardening, growing vegetables feels like a natural extension of that. Eating something I’ve grown is so satisfying. I feel...
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