Oh Internet. The beauty of the internet is we can find just about anything at any time. The not-so-beautiful side of the internet is very not-so-beautiful. Hitherhencetofore, setting my children free to search on the world wide web without a filter is not something my...
Oh-so many weekends ago (my how time flies!)... I had the unique and most wonderful opportunity to head over to the Seattle side and join in on the first stop of King Artur Flour's Bake for Good Tour. Since the early bird gets the worm, we met early in the morning on...
You guys... voting for the National Pork Board's America's Top #ChopGriller contest began June 2nd... and ends June 13th! The National Pork Board received nearly 6,000 contest entries and narrowed it down to eight. These eight finalists are competing to prove they...
70 years. It's been 70 years. 29 years before I was even born... D-Day. My experience with D-Day has been through what I've read in books or have seen in documentaries... or classes, or news stories. Sometimes the stories grip me in a very real, deep, and sorrowful...
I do. Ish. I mean... it's not REALLY an obsession. It's more of something that distracts me from to-do lists. And whathaveyou. Of course they say that admitting something is the first step in overcoming something and maybe I am not quite ready to overcome. Before I...
As I was going through my summer clothes I noticed something... LOTS OF PLAID BERMUDA SHORTS. Which got me to thinking...perhaps I'm obsessed? Which gave me flashbacks of times in the stores where I ooh-and-aah over all the cute plaid bermuda shorts I see. And then I...
You guys. I know I've been all, "OH WRITER'S BLOCK!" before. But it is what it is. Hitherhencetofore... SNAPSHOTS. And also when life gets crazy it gets CRAZY and sometimes all I can do to remember the day before is to scroll through my photos on my phone to see what...
May (THIS month!) is National Foster Care Month. Related: IT'S MAY ALREADY?!!! I was asked by Treehouse to share with you about their organization to help raise awareness about the issues facing foster children in Washington state. They are a leading Washington...
I'm sorry. I don't mean to help run this holiday into the ground with ANOTHER post about moms/mother's day. But, here lies my contribution to the internet. My family helped me make a little video for Mother's Day. There are no flowers. Nor jewelry. No pedicures. No...
Dear May, You are drunk. Sincerely, Me I have all kinds of thoughts running through my head so I cannot guarantee any respectful level of coherency. There's that one saying about March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb... Instead I would like to say that...
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