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Favorite Things – Food
Day 2 of Nicole’s Virtual Favorite Things Party! Curious about what’s going on? Check out the introduction post here. Okay, let’s not mess around, let’s talk about food. The first thing we learn…
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Favorite Things – Quotes
Welcome to Day 1 of Nicole’s Virtual Favorite Things Party! If you’re curious what’s happening, head on back to the introduction post about Favorite Things. This past year, we might have all found…
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Nicole’s Favorite Things…
A few years ago, I heard of this “Favorite Things” party. I looked into it, and thought I might just try it. It worked so well, I’ve repeated the party a few times.…
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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A ghostly history
Here is more information than you ever asked to know about this little book and the man who wrote it. My family is a Dickens Christmas Carol family to the core. It all…
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Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
I found an unexpected moment of quiet tonight. As the dusky sky, a yellowed pink hue, gave way to dark blues, I sat on my sofa in the glow of my Christmas tree.…
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Good coffee for Friday the 13th
In honor of Friday the 13th, here’s a quick blurb from my book, The Italian Holiday. The characters just happen to be discussing Friday the 13. Only they are in Florence, in the…
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Hope in the Time of 2020
My internal playlist continues to fluctuate between the song “Don’t Stop” by Fleetwood Mac and “It’s The End of the World” by REM. How bout you? Anyway, they say you come across what…
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By the book…
My friend Ariane sent me a text the other day with this question. “What is one book you wished everyone would read?” And I haven’t slept since. That’s not completely true, I haven’t…
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Lessons from the Medieval Times
This is the time of year I yearn to settle into fall quotes and long rambling sentences while I make fun of the abundance of pumpkin spice flavored items. But this year, the…
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Learning to Preserve…
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have…
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