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In the Kitchen: Chocolate Cherry Coconut Larabars

I absolutely LOVE Larabars. They are my favourite kind of bar because they are made so simply. I mean, just dates, nuts, dried fruit, and maybe some other additions like chocolate, or coconut, or...

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In the Kitchen: Marinated Steaks with Cheesy Potatoes

For the past few years, my husband and I have bought 1/2 a bison to put in the freezer for the winter months. Of course, being half a bison and us being two people, it usually lasts much longer than...

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In the Kitchen: Crock Pot Chicken Taco Soup

I love tacos. Actually, everyone in this house loves tacos. When it’s declared a taco night, the people rejoice. Hoorah! My husband and I buy our chickens locally and I usually cook one up in the slow...

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Musing On: Getting Healthy (Why is it so hard?)

We all have New Year’s resolutions. Yes, it’s the end of June and I’m talking about New Year’s! But a lot of people — myself included — have that one resolution in the back of their mind every single...

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In the Kitchen: Peanut Butter Dog Cookies

My dogs looooove cookies. A few years ago, my husband and I never really paid attention to the kinds of treats we were giving our dogs. If a bag of treats sounded good, we’d pick it up. If pig’s ears...

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Musing On: The Dying Art of the Phone Call

I remember way back a hundred years ago when I was younger (I may be exaggerating …) when I would ask my best friend if she would be free to do something by … going to her house and knocking on the...

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Musing On: My History In Music (Performing)

When I was younger, having just started learning to play the piano and beginning to write my own songs, I loved recording. I used to take my karaoke machine with me to the piano so I could record...

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In the Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Juice

I really love making juice in the morning — sometimes it’s what gets me out of bed! The anticipation of something absolutely delicious, energizing, and good for you! My juicer isn’t anything special,...

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Short Story Review: Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K. Dick

Add This Book on Goodreads The wub stood sagging, its great body settling slowly. It was sitting down, its eyes half shut. A few flies buzzed about its flank, and it switched its tail. “It” sat. There...

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Musing On: Writing

(This is a post that originally appeared on the now-defunct blog, A Winter Writer.) This discussion is about the writing process and what happens when we finish our writing – if one can EVER finish...

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In the Kitchen: Churro Waffles

I love breakfast. Every morning, I have full intention to create something AMAZING for breakfast, but then my stomach usually gets involved and I eat something simple, like cereal or yogurt, instead...

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Book Review: Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman

Add This Book on Goodreads From the author of Wildflower Hill, this breathtaking novel travels more than a century between two love stories set in the Australian seaside town of Lighthouse Bay. In...

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Audiobook Review: Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden

Add This Book on Goodreads North Korea is isolated, hungry, bankrupt, and belligerent. Its also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison...

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Book Review: The Man in My Basement, by Walter Mosley

Add This Book on Goodreads Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-The Man in My Basement tells the story of Charles Blakey, a young black man who can’t...

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Book Review: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Add This Book on Goodreads Remember the woman you used to be … Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick....

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Musing On: Insomnia And Loud Brains

Oh, sleep. How I always look forward to you! But sometimes you can be a fickle bitch. I don’t suffer from insomnia often, but there have been quite a few nights where I go to bed, read my book for a...

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Photography: If a mess happens when you’re not looking, who’s to blame?

I have three dogs. I’ve been lucky with the first two that they really haven’t caused a lot of trouble. When we got Gracie, she was pretty good to start with, but had a week of complete and utter...

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In the Kitchen: Shepherd’s Pie

I absolutely ADORE winter meals. It seems that when it’s cold outside, it’s totally okay to throw something in the slow cooker, or make some soup, or make large batches of your favourite comfort foot....

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Book Review: Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan

Add This Book on Goodreads Berlin, 1939. A young, brilliant trumpet-player, Hieronymus, is arrested in a Paris cafe. The star musician was never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a...

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Book Review: The Banks of Certain Rivers, by Jon Harrison

Add This Book on Goodreads “Urgent, real, and often very funny.”—James Frey, New York Times bestselling author of Bright Shiny Morning and A Million Little Pieces Neil Kazenzakis is barely holding his...

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