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the real thing
I have no idea how I’m going to fit a new obsession into my life, but I’ve discovered power yoga and I’m already in deep. It speaks to me so wholly I have some faith it’s not a passing fancy. My...
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Blue Moon rising
Friday brought the first Blue Moon Ride of the year, and a fabulous time it was, a quick 20 miles, five strong women pushing the pace a bit through the last five and then rolling downhill for this: I’m...
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morus
A number of things harken me back to my childhood summers in small-town Ohio, but few of them so provocatively as the taste of a mulberry. My dad has always delighted in free, as in foraged, food, and...
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it’s bean so long…
Oh, but I love this time of year, when the star-billing summer crops are just beginning to come in. Before you start to wonder what in green harvest HELL can be done with six more zucchini, another...
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measure of affection
One of my treasures happens, because I’m lazy and forgot to put it up, to be sitting about 8 inches from my right hand at this moment. It’s petite, but it has a sweet heft. I keep it in a kitchen...
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wit and witches and suchnot
My love affair with Halloween is, fundamentally, about two things: candy corn, and costumes. Regular readers know I feel eating locally and seasonally is important. I consider candy corn seasonal to...
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caroling, in the subjunctive
Kira’s class is preparing for their annual holiday program. Since it’s a preschool housed in a Presbyterian church, it is in fact referred to as a “Christmas Program,” but Yellow Springs was far ahead...
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he knows my heart
Apparently the MPM received an email recently telling him that what his wife really wanted for Christmas was seven inches of hard steel. Fortunately for me, his spam filter didn’t tag it. So under the...
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not so scheduled after all
Last night it seemed like our day was going to be a big rush of getting places on time, so I sat down and made the MPM work with me to draw up an itinerary. He is not much for planning out a timeline...
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tomorrow i will rant
Today marked Megan’s very first SOL. Here in Virginia, that stands for something far, far more evil than the usual shit-outta-luck: Standards of Learning. It’s our standardized test, administered in...
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