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Wordless Wednesday

February 18, 2015 by Sara

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Fat Tuesday

February 17, 2015 by Sara

It’s Mardi Gras!  Party on, for tomorrow we fast.

The Faces of Mardi Gras

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Mom’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

February 16, 2015 by Sara

It was cold outside and I wanted to bake something, because there’s nothing better on a cold winter day than a hot oven and fresh bakery.  I made a batch of Mom’s chocolate chip cookies.

These were the cookies I grew up on.  These were the first cookies I learned how to bake.  On the first night at my first apartment I mixed up and ate a whole batch of this cookie dough (raw eggs be damned!) as an act of independence.  Mom’s chocolate chip cookies are still following me around, giving me a cozy feeling on this winter day.

I’m not going to give a recipe because these cookies would have no significance to you.  These aren’t just chocolate chip cookies, they’re Mom’s chocolate chip cookies.  There must be dozens of recipes for “Mom’s chocolate chip cookies” because nearly every mom in the universe makes chocolate chip cookies at some time or other, even if they come out of the grocery store refrigerator case.  What makes them special is that they’re the cookies your mom made.  And they’re delicious.

 

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Nelson Sings Berlin

February 3, 2015 by Sara

The other day I was reminded of a song I haven’t heard in a long time.  Decades ago when I first heard it I loved the lyrics and seldom used three-quarter time.  When I heard it recently I couldn’t get it out of my head for days, which wasn’t a bad thing because it’s such a lovely song.

What’ll I Do was written (or released, I can’t be sure) in 1924 by Irving Berlin and has been recorded by dozens of artists since ~ Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Linda Ronstadt to name a few. It’s a sad song about a failed romance and is usually sung in a dreamy, swoony fashion.

I came across a version of this song that tore my heart out. Not only is the music divine, the artist and video capture the loneliness and melancholy of the song completely. I surprised myself when I chose Willie Nelson’s rendition of What’ll I Do as the best I’d ever heard. What do you think?

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So Boring

January 29, 2015 by Sara

I don’t know if you’ve noticed (I have) that I haven’t been posting much on my blog lately.  The fact of the matter is, I feel like my life is just too dull to share with the universe.  I mean, how many times does anyone want to hear about the bottle cap charms and magnets I’m making?  Does anyone really care what I had for dinner?  Dull, I say.

But lately I’ve been thinking about a friend of mine who is having way more excitement than she deserves.  And not the good kind of excitement.  I’m talking about worries, family indifference on one side, family illness on another, even death.  All…at…once.  My heart goes out to her, and I realize how lucky I am that my life is so dull.

Blessings to my friend, her entire family, and anyone else who is having too much ickiness going on.  I send wishes you for a dull life and feel grateful about how boring mine is.

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