I’ve always been sensitive when it comes to bad news on TV and it seems like there is always more bad than good news these days. Last week, I was pretty much glued to the TV every waking hour to follow the coverage of hurricane Sandy. To be honest, I...
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On singleness and contentment by Stephany (Stephany writes). I really liked Stephany’s candid post about why embracing being single can be a good thing! On doing what you want by Lexa (Lemmonex). Everyone has a different path to adulthood. And that’s ok. Snack Time: Brussels Sprout Chips by Elsie (A...
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It is absolutely mind-boggling to me that it it that time of the year again. November is here and that means it’s time for National Blog Posting Month. Bloggers commit to update their blogs once a day for an entire month. I’ve participated for the last 6 years, since the whole damn thing was...
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{source: my flickr} Wow, did this month fly by in the blink of an eye, or what? The end of NaBloPoMo literally snuck up on me this year. I have more post ideas sitting in my draft folder than I needed for this month, which, in a way, is a...
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Ashley wrote an interesting blog post a couple of weeks ago about how your blog and what you put out there can make you and your life look a hell lot more perfect than it probably is, and that is definitely true for me. While I don’t think that my...
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J and I had a lovely, long Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice, cozy, quiet – just the two of us – and almost a bit too long. (Did I really just say that?) Well, you know the kind, where it gets really hard to go back to work on Monday....
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{source: my flickr} As I mentioned last week, winter time is all about yummy soups and stews. Since I am practically making a vegetable soup once a week, I thought I would share this delicious recipe with you as well. According to my Mom, this can be turned into a...
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Today (7/8) we spent another beautiful day in San Francisco. We took BART into San Francisco again after breakfast and got off at Embarcardero station. We walked over to the water and walked out onto Pier 5, which offered a beautiful view of Treasure Island, the Bay Bridge and the...
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