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The Ritual of Grace: A Wave For Jesus
Saying Grace. It looks different around every table. Passed on. Linking generations with hand me down words of mealtime gratitude. It’s the giving of thanks that matters. Not the words you use or...
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Ordinary Lens – Week 11
I was born in Banbury, England. And as the poem says… “she shall have music wherever she goes”. Living with a child who plays violin, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and the ukele… oh how true it is...
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I Spy: My Teenager Being Human
Parenting a teenager is an experiment in self-control. The little buggers are all cute and cuddly when you first bring them home. Then they gain the power of speech. Which they cannot use without adult...
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Ordinary Lens: Week 15
Veggies for lunch make me feel healthy. The Chicken Farmer and I made a quick trip to Chattanooga. Cornbread Festival. Who wants to go with me? Industrial blue. We stayed in a 100 year old bread and...
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Just Being Human
Real life is happening here. Laundry’s done but piled up in a bin on my bedroom floor. Wrinkly clean because I really can’t be bothered to fold things. The kitchen floor is sticky. I forgot to run the...
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A Brief High-Five To Some Mammas
I was going to write a post about fabulous gifts to buy for the Mammas in your life. But really, if I start scouring the internets for hip and trendy gifts that will make the Mamma in your life flip...
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A Crowded Meal For One
Sitting here in a quiet house. Eating a no fuss meal for a home alone girl. Fried egg with avocado on toast. It’s almost too quiet. The solitude takes me back to another meal. At another table. My...
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Ordinary Lens: Week 20
Scenes from this past week…. Airport waiting I bought my Mum flowers Private concert Home is where the music is Organic bling O.R.E.O.S. Words to live by Girl Wonder played her last 8th grade concert....
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Easist Cookie Ever: Cool Whip cookies
Emergency cookies. The kind of cookies you need when your teenager says “I need something to take to movie night. For 12 teenagers.” Maybe it’s 10:30 p.m. and you remembered there’s an office lunch...
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Ordinary Lens: Week 25
Scenes from this past week….. The state of my kitchen table is a direct reflection of my life. Currently – scattered and smothered. The Chicken Farmer gathered us up for some downtime downtown. A Bride...
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Ordidnary Lens: Week 43
Bits and bobs from this past week… My face. In my extremely dirty car window. I should have been washing windows instead of taking pictures My girl is blazin’ it up. It seems like I spend a lot of time...
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Chiptotle Pork Butt
Cold weather is still hanging around here in Tennessee. We’ve had 30 degree days. Then 70 degree days. Then back to 30 degree days. We’ve had sleet and thunderstorms and balmy Sunday mornings. The...
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Mothers, Daughters and Girl Balls
Last Saturday night, I took part in Nashville’s inaugural show of Listen To Your Mother. Ours was just one of 32 performances across the country. Each show pulls together a bunch of women and puts...
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School of Essential Ingredients
A good meal is sultry. One bite captures the curves and tingle of a moment. Placing it gently on your tongue to spark a memory.
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Porch Fixin’s
A spring evening. A breeze. The weekend quickly coming to a close. Monday ready to pounce. The teenager has mowed the lawn which has turned her sparkly self into a sweaty 5’9″ stomping mess of cranky....
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Nashville Public Library Seed Exchange
Cool fact: if you’ve got a library card you can check out seeds. Seeds and good reads – a winning combination. You can join in the seed exchange program by going to any of these 4 branches: Bellevue,...
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Feed Me Words
I’m not a big magazine reader. I tend to flip through them, gaze at pretty pictures than put them in a stack. Sometimes I tear recipes out of magazines. They get their own stack. Basically, magazines...
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For Your Mouth: High Cotton – Charleston, SC
We met a friend for lunch. It was muggy and I was hungry. High Cotton – from the outside, just another restaurant on a busy street in Charleston, South Carolina. A black awning. A simple wooden sign....
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Things I’m Lovin’ – June
1. The Forest Feast is the latest edition to my cookbook collection. The pictures are pretty. The recipes are simple and uncomplicated. There are no fancy, exotic ingredients. Everything can be found...
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