Hello, my friends, and happy 2021! It is hard to believe that January is well on its way to being over. I have been doing the usual January things these past few weeks. I have been unduly excited about the fresh start or blank slate that is a new calendar year. I have been thinking … Continue reading Cooking Together!
Category: general thoughts
Homemade Gifts: A New Plan
Hi friends. I know it has been a while, but we had this whole pandemic-election-home school-impending doom thing going on for the last several months (years?), and I am not afraid to say my bandwidth was, well, gone. Maybe it is the proximity of the new year, or a glimmer of human optimism, but I … Continue reading Homemade Gifts: A New Plan
Apricot Jam, Anger, and Tire Rationing, Oh My!
I have a bit of a confession to make. I really like apricot jam. I know, I know, that isn't much of an actual confession, but I am warming up. I love homemade apricot jam the most, but if I can't get my hands on that, I settle for a very specific brand. I will … Continue reading Apricot Jam, Anger, and Tire Rationing, Oh My!
Hands in Dough and Music On: A Mantra for Right Now
Milk Bread ("I've got this feeling inside my bones. It goes electric wavy when I turn it on.") I will admit this last couple of weeks have been a struggle. I am not really doing poorly, its just I am not really doing anything. It is as if all personal motivation has been sucked out … Continue reading Hands in Dough and Music On: A Mantra for Right Now
A Purposeful Quiet
Oh wow. The world has been heavy as of late. We are all collectively and individually wrestling with fear and isolation, sacrificing for the greater good, national identity, deep pain, and racial reckoning. Even squares of cloth or simple declarative statements about the value of life have gotten heavy as they become imbued with more … Continue reading A Purposeful Quiet
The Substitute Times
Muffins are great for substitutes, and they even take your wrinkled frozen fruit well These are the substitute times. When you were a kid in school substitute days were always filled with the vague concept of treading water, or waiting for "the real teacher" to come back. (Please read no disrespect toward substitute teachers, who, … Continue reading The Substitute Times
The Power of Small: A Manifesto
I love the idea of BIG radical change. I love the idea of sweeping grand gestures that change relationships, people, or best, the world for the better. But I also like the idea of living in a Jane Austen novel, even though I am pretty sure I would hate the lack of plumbing, rules for … Continue reading The Power of Small: A Manifesto
No’s and Lemonade
Instead of lemonade, I propose cinnamon swirls I got a firm no this past month. It felt pretty big. Not something that I was super set on doing, but the no still felt...personal. It hurt. The strange thing was, I was expecting it. I knew the no answer was going to be coming that week. … Continue reading No’s and Lemonade
What’s Next
When I first conceived this once a week bread giveaway, it was less a conception and more of an intervention. It was planted, wholly formed, into my brain. God's hands were all over it. He put it in my head and that was that. This was what I was supposed to do. It was specific, … Continue reading What’s Next
Triumphs and Tangibility
I did it! I mean, I really, really did it. I made the pie of my dreams. The pie that was on my summer to-do list, and that I found myself thinking about during down moments in the day. I dreamt of it fairly in-depth, and I am not ashamed to admit part of it … Continue reading Triumphs and Tangibility