I’m envious of people who have hard skills that they can offer to others. Whether it’s to make money, to barter or just to be nice, they have a skill that others need and they can take it anywhere. I have benefited immensely from people like that over the years. Cousin Abby does hair […]
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Pie is my zen. Time and again, I’m always surprised by the random thoughts that enter my mind as I clear my head and focus on making pie. Over the past few weeks, my pietifications have centered around a funny phenomenon that I now affectionately call the Disappearing Mommy. I’ve been seeing articles recently about […]
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Pie is my zen. Time and again, I’m always surprised by the random thoughts that enter my mind as I clear my head and focus on making pie. Over the past few weeks, my pietifications have centered around a funny phenomenon that I now affectionately call the Disappearing Mommy. I’ve been seeing articles recently about […]
read moreYou know your life has turned a corner when upon visiting a new city, you embark on a pie crawl and not a bar crawl like a more youthful and resilient version of yourself might have say, oh, 15 years ago. My how time has changed me – those rounds of cherry bombs and appletinis […]
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“Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface….Like pie is.” Joss Whedon Pie continues to pop up in my life in unexpected ways. This latest Pie It Forward was no exception – this was a total unplanned, surprise Pie It Forward. For years, I have been interested […]
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One would think I should be a dog lover seeing as though I have one, but it took me quite some time to learn to love my dog. I had not been able to completely warm up to her until an unexpected experience left us with more in common than I ever could have imagined. […]
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Let’s just cut to the chase here. I made Irish soda bread and it was just as good (dare I say better?) than my Mother-in-Law’s. There, I said it! For years I have swooned over her Irish soda bread and resolved that I could never make anything to compare. But this girl was destined for […]
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I dread baking during the work week for one simple reason – dishes. I love the baking part, but the aftermath is just so overwhelming when all I want to do is call it a night and go to bed. My M.O. each time I’m in the kitchen is to use as few utensils and […]
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Before I go any further, let me just put this out into the world – I am totally sick from eating too much rugelach dough. Onward… These rugelach prove that sometimes keeping a little mystery about oneself is a good thing. Women hear it all the time; men like some mystery to their partner. In […]
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Although I have spent the past year up to my ears in pie, I have not been inspired to make a tart. Tarts just seem so high maintenance – so pristine with their tight little crumb and perfectly filled shells. It’s like they are the fancy older sister of pie. The one from the Upper […]
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I always have the best results when I don’t over think things. Take my hair, for instance. The days that I’m late, half-showered and furiously drying my hair to get out the door are usually the days that people tell me my hair looks good. “What did you do to your hair?” they will ask. […]
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I’ve taken back Tuesday. Tuesday is such a bummer of a day. It does not have the cache that Monday has. Manic Monday. Oh, looks like he has a case of the Mondays. I’ll start on Monday. Hop on Facebook on Sunday night and see how many posts mention Monday. Wednesday has the unfortunate status […]
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