I love getting the mail – it’s like anticipating a little surprise every single day. Many days, of course, it’s nothing but HEB flyers and coupons for Pizza Hut, but on occasion something lovely shows up and it keeps me anxious to keep checking the mail (wasn’t there a study about pigeons and random reward allotment?). On Sunday, I went…
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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
8 of 10: A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table is a book that made me want to eat cool salads made from chopped pistachios and bittersweet chocolate. Also, I now want to move to Seattle and buy my fish straight from the sea. After book blogs, my biggest chunk of Google Reader is probably dedicated to…
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Brown Squirrel
Early this morning, I left for a week of camping with a bunch of teenage girls. Along with five other leaders, I’m responsible for 25 thirteen-year-old girls and another 6 sixteen and seventeen year old girls who act as junior leaders for the younger girls. We’ll hike, stargaze, learn outdoorsy skills, swim, and probably come home filthy. Also, this is…
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Life Goals
A few months ago, my mom sent me an email about HUGE goals. She was listening to a seminar that suggested coming up with your life goals – what you really want to do with your life, even if it seems almost impossible – and setting three-year goals based on that. Otherwise, you set year-long goals which aren’t as meaningful…
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The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
8 of 10: The Luxe was just a fun fun read; I don’t see much YA historical fiction set at the turn of the century, but I was completely sucked in to it. Romance, intrigue, class-warfare – what’s not to like? I picked up The Luxe in MARCH from the library. I read 20 pages and then got busy with…
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