March DIY + business book club – 2015
I love spring but I also kind of can’t wait for it to be over. I love it because it’s finally warm enough to spend time in the backyard, replant the flower beds and vegetable garden, morning walks no longer…
I love spring but I also kind of can’t wait for it to be over. I love it because it’s finally warm enough to spend time in the backyard, replant the flower beds and vegetable garden, morning walks no longer…
I was not a fan of fanny packs the first time they came around in the 1980s. Back then fanny packs were generally a telltale sign of someone who didn’t dress cool. They were reserved for tourists, older people or…
The Thanksgivings that we spent at my great aunts’ house were always anticipated. She lived in an amazing home in the middle of a redwood forest. She had a stone fireplace in her living room that would be roaring. My…
Trying new stuff has always been one of my favorite things. I think it is something that my parents have always tried to teach me. We had to try new foods, we had to taste things at older relatives homes,…
My kids love to make things. And they love to give me some of the things they make. I am constantly blessed with gifts from the backyard, gifts from the walk, gifts from crafts from school, and gifts from church….
We moved to the apple orchard when I was 6. My parents traded the neighborhood, and the paved streets for rolling hills, dust, and a long dirt driveway. The house we moved into was big, but older. With the older…
I grew up in the country. We had a long dirt driveway off the highway that led to our home in the middle of an apple orchard. We didn’t have neighbors, we didn’t have trash service, and we didn’t have…
Honey is a staple in our home. We put it in our tea, on our toast, in our oatmeal, and I’ve always used it for the kid’s coughs, sore throats and the other vague “illnesses” that seem to come up…
My grandma was an amazing cook. As an immigrant from Europe, she brought the word “feast” to a whole different level when it came to holiday gatherings. She spent days before the event in the kitchen preparing her home-grown veggies,…
Pottery and clay work has always been a fascination of mine. Maybe I watched the famous scene in “ghost” too many times as an impressionable teenager, but it has this kinetic, romantic, tactile quality to it that I can’t help…
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