A Little Spring Cleaning

Yeah, I know spring is basically over. But I recently updated and reorganized all my blog bookmarks, ditching the ones that I don’t enjoy so much, or even the ones that take forever to load, and adding a few new must-reads. I shared with you some of my favorites a few weeks ago, [...]

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Dumbest TV Line about Childbirth

I am watching the DVD of Firefly, the Joss Whedon scifi show cancelled a few years ago. A woman is in active labor and her friend playing midwife says:
“Petalline, look at me. This is just a moment in time. Step aside and let it happen.”
Oh, the things I would let happen.

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Brownies Are My Abusive Boyfriend

I tell myself that I won’t go back. This is the last time. Never again. I deserve better than this.
But then I start to remember the good times. How perfect it could be. We were so great together. And I go back.
But this time is different. It’s over. [...]

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A skunk-cabbage by any other name

My mom-in-law is an unfailingly courteous southern woman. She enthuses over every gift she recives, spending five minutes describing how wonderful it is. Every meal someone cooks for her is praised as though it were her mother’s own recipe. She is always an example of graciousness. I, on the other [...]

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Buttermilk Pancakes

Overwhelmed over at Overwhelmed with Joy has started Five Ingredients Friday, and I thought I would contribute my favorite buttermilk pancakes. But then I realized that my pancakes have more than five ingredients. So I hope you will forgive my memory lapse, or my nonconformity, or whatever it should be called. These [...]

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