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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All the years I spent in Ohio eating sweet corn and I never knew about the process of detasseling. Detasseling is removing the pollen-producing flowers from the tops of the corn plants and placing them on the ground. The work is sometimes done by hand in the hot summer sun and allows for hybridizing...
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Just when things are going well something happens. You kick yourself and say if I had just done this two minutes earlier none of this would have happened. But you can’t avoid the calamities of life forever. No matter how thoughtful or prepared you may be. Sometimes all you can do is take a...
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For me the line was when I stopped showing up for my family. Sure you could argue that I did a bad job setting boundaries with work and there were definitely things I could have done better. But environment matters. You can accomplish amazing things in a pressure cooker but it’s not sustainable and...
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My mom used to say that having kids was the greatest accomplishment of her life. I was a young adult when she said this to me. But it wasn’t until I had children of my own that I really understood. I’ve done some cool things in my life. Pushed my limits and pursued my...
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Sometimes you can’t go back. You have to leap. Funny how the things that can save you feel like falling....
Continue readingNothing Is Stopping You
We have several thousand thoughts a day. Surely one of them can make it to the page. It’s absurd if you think about it. The amount we censor ourselves. Of course not everything we think should be written down. Sometimes there is joy in simply letting thoughts drift into and out if our minds....
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I have never felt bad after writing something. Even if it’s just one word or sentence. I have felt bad every single time I didn’t. Funny how that works....
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