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This Valentine’s Day: Finding Love On the Charcuterie Board

Cheese can be messy and hard. Cheese can be complicated and temperamental.

And cheese – in its purest form – is sheer decadence.

Ditto love.

Valentine’s Day sometimes feels contrived and sappy, not to mention hypercommercialized….

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  • Holidays, Marriage
  • Feb, 14, 2024
  • 33 Comments

Top Five/Bottom Five: Basic Hygiene and Self-Care Routines

Top Five/Bottom Five posts always seem to generate lots of fun discussion and I needed something a bit lighter than yesterday’s topic.

I had a hard time concretely defining the parameters, but I’m thinking…

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  • Top Five/Bottom Five
  • Feb, 13, 2024
  • 40 Comments

The State of My Uterus Address

You may not want to hear about the state of my uterus. Fair enough. Come back tomorrow and there will be nary a fallopian tube or cervix in discussion.

But today I’m going to share…

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  • Health
  • Feb, 12, 2024
  • 40 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 9 February

Can I let you in on a little secret? Some weeks I have to dig really deep to identify happy things. It’s not that they aren’t are, it’s just that the debris of life…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Life
  • Feb, 09, 2024
  • 41 Comments

Life Lately: A Roundup of What I’ve Been Eating, Watching, and Reading + Recipe Recommendations?

Time to talk food, television, and books. Who’s ready?

FOOD

I recently took part in a church-wide fast. For the first time – in my life! – I abstained from food for a spiritual reason, and…

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  • Food, Life, Reading
  • Feb, 08, 2024
  • 48 Comments

What’s In A Name? Let’s Talk Pronunciation, Grandparents, and Other Language Topics

I think we can all agree the English language is a regular ol’ hoot sometimes. The rules, the syntax. The quirks that make absolutely zero sense.

And then there is pronunciation.

Growing up Canadian, I…

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  • Habits, Language, Personality Insights, Random
  • Feb, 07, 2024
  • 67 Comments

My Year of Shmita: January Recap

I’m still not sure how to best track/recap my real-time progression through a “Year of Shmita”; for this month at least, I’m simply going to write down a smorgasbord of ideas without too much…

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  • Quotes, Sabbath, Year of Shmita
  • Feb, 06, 2024
  • 39 Comments
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