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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

As I’m slowly finding my way around the kitchen, I’m becoming more and more adventurous with the use of herbs (I know, right? How dangerous and daredevil-y am I? Watch out salt and pepper, I’m stepping out!). But after a few weeks of buying fresh [Read more…]

Oh, hello beach!

Oh, hello beach!

Sometimes I forget where I live. I don’t mean, like, soap-opera-amnesia-style forget. I mean something more along the lines of getting caught up in the day-to-day so much that we forget things sometimes. To quote one of my favorite role models, Ferris Bueller: “Life moves [Read more…]

100 Years of Grace

100 Years of Grace

It seems greedy to say that I wish my grandmother had lived a little longer. After all, she was 95 when she passed in 2007. Many of my friends have had much less time to spend with their grandparents, so I should be grateful for [Read more…]

Alabama Shakes

Alabama Shakes

Three tracks into the Alabama Shakes’ debut album Boys and Girls, I was rolling the windows in my car down to feel summer in the air with a smile on my face. (Yeah, it’s April in Florida, but it feels like summer…and has since February) [Read more…]