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Nature is a funny gal.  She never disappoints when I am looking for comfort and answers.  Here in Georgia, I often stand beneath the tall pines to feel a calm come over me.  With their statuesque presence, they hide me from the world so that…

As many times as I have tried to ignore it…as many times as I have attempted to look the other way, I have finally met eye to eye with the aging process.  It has come at me hard with so many physical and emotional red…

There comes a time in our lives when we discover, after 46 years, we actually don’t know shit.  Who’s 46, by the way?  I’m not 46….YOU’RE 46.  Anyway….. Taking a short hiatus to reboot, recharge and re-evaluate one’s self can for sure be a shock…

I remember the day my parents bought their first shiny new microwave.  Of course, it was a few years after everyone else had purchased their own.  We were always behind the times; with our fashion, gadgets, and home appliances.  Getting that microwave was a symbol…

My dreams are always either about food (a new recipe idea that will make me the most brilliant person alive) or my own murder.  I either wake up googling said idea to see if it has been done before or I wake from having a…

Every month, I see other bloggers posting about their “Favorite Things”, “Favourite Things” (from my UK gals) or “Currently Crushing On…” and I’m just like….  “Bitch, don’t you just loathe SOMETHING?  ANYTHING?” I see, taste, and do things on the reg that absolutely have me…

Over Memorial holiday weekend, Brandon and I dug through stacked boxes in our garage to locate my old VHS tapes.  I was on a mission to find three magical tapes marked 120 Minutes.  That’s right.  Those three tapes were hours and hours of the coolest…

Yesterday, instead of venturing out to the annual Thomasville Rose Show Festival, I decided to stay in the kitchen a bit longer and try a new recipe from one of my favorite Yotam Ottolenghi cookbooks, Plenty More.  I stopped at the glance of the word ‘cake’.  I…

I was having an “Uncle Rico” moment yesterday as I daydreamed about my 2014 travel to Europe.  I was privileged to have had the opportunity to visit so many beautiful places through Go Global travel with a few of my fellow art students.  I halfheartedly…

Pizza is the best.  But, personal little notes are better.  In this day of our world wide web, we seldom receive or give small tangible notes of sweetness to brighten someone’s day.  It is so much easier to just shoot someone an email, a text,…