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Got Guts?
I’m gushing. This is post is purely me gushing Girl Wonder has auditioned for our High School of the Arts (think Fame without the leg warmers and with an actual academic program) She put herself out...
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Potty training to picking the right high school. This parenting thing is packed with pressure and choices that apparently can be the difference between your kid running a Fortune 500 company or...
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What You Need To Know: A Birthday Letter For My Girl Wonder
We’re moving into the trenches of the teenaged years. I was going to write something all deep and wise and filled with maternal wisdom. Instead we’re going to keep it brief. I’m going to hit the high...
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5 Reminders For The Tired Mamma
Your calendar gets covered in pencil smudges. Handwriting gets smaller to fit more in each tiny box. You stare at all the comings and goings and wonder who keeps putting all this stuff in your...
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Ordinary Lens – Weeks 12 & 13
This week is two – two weeks in one! We’ve been getting ready to get out of town. Out of town. Back in town. And doing laundry. I’m playing catch up. I bought a pretty vintage strainer from the Chicken...
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Real Talk: Motherhood Scares Me
Real talk. I’m wearing Fear pants. They’re too tight and make my butt look big but I can’t get them off. I seem to be stuck. The Girl Wonder has pierced her own ear. I believe a Piercer in the know...
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Ordinary Lens: Week 20
Scenes from this past week…. Airport waiting I bought my Mum flowers Private concert Home is where the music is Organic bling O.R.E.O.S. Words to live by Girl Wonder played her last 8th grade concert....
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Ordinary Lens: Week 21
Scenes from this past week…. We celebrated Food Revolution Day. My kind of a revolution. One with pasta. Summer is here and my legs are almost as white as my shoes. And I have to shave daily now. Fish...
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Ordinary Lens: Week 23
Scenes from this past week…. We got gussied up and went to the Symphony Center for dinner and classical music. A gift from the Chicken Farmer. My coffee cup seemed tiny. Apparently I drink out of a...
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Ordinary Lens: Week 24
Scenes from this week…. I made cooookies Boss clouds Tomatoes are growing Beverage break in the garden. Water from the hose. Mint from a pot. Red lilies. Nature’s version of a Jack in the Box surprise....
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Ordinary Lens: Week 26
Scenes from this past week….. I took my first food styling class … you know that feeling when you’re a kid and you’re running through an ice cold sprinkler and it’s making chilly dots all over your...
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High School – The Final Stretch
Girl Wonder starts High School this week. New school. New schedule. Lots of change. I suspect this will be the year that teenaged hormonal angst explodes like fireworks in my house. This may be the...
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Ordidnary Lens: Week 43
Bits and bobs from this past week… My face. In my extremely dirty car window. I should have been washing windows instead of taking pictures My girl is blazin’ it up. It seems like I spend a lot of time...
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Chiptotle Pork Butt
Cold weather is still hanging around here in Tennessee. We’ve had 30 degree days. Then 70 degree days. Then back to 30 degree days. We’ve had sleet and thunderstorms and balmy Sunday mornings. The...
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Mothers, Daughters and Girl Balls
Last Saturday night, I took part in Nashville’s inaugural show of Listen To Your Mother. Ours was just one of 32 performances across the country. Each show pulls together a bunch of women and puts...
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School of Essential Ingredients
A good meal is sultry. One bite captures the curves and tingle of a moment. Placing it gently on your tongue to spark a memory.
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Porch Fixin’s
A spring evening. A breeze. The weekend quickly coming to a close. Monday ready to pounce. The teenager has mowed the lawn which has turned her sparkly self into a sweaty 5’9″ stomping mess of cranky....
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Nashville Public Library Seed Exchange
Cool fact: if you’ve got a library card you can check out seeds. Seeds and good reads – a winning combination. You can join in the seed exchange program by going to any of these 4 branches: Bellevue,...
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Feed Me Words
I’m not a big magazine reader. I tend to flip through them, gaze at pretty pictures than put them in a stack. Sometimes I tear recipes out of magazines. They get their own stack. Basically, magazines...
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For Your Mouth: High Cotton – Charleston, SC
We met a friend for lunch. It was muggy and I was hungry. High Cotton – from the outside, just another restaurant on a busy street in Charleston, South Carolina. A black awning. A simple wooden sign....
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