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  • Image with text, pen, and coffee. Paper reads, "Complexity and simplicity exist together. One does not cancel out the other."
    Food,  The Kitchen Sink

    On Oranges And Complexity

    The other day, I was sitting at my desk thinking about oranges. You know, the fruit with the peel? You may recognize it at any number of children’s soccer games. Anyways, I was thinking about oranges and how certain aspects of an orange mirror our lives. Before you decide I’ve lost it, hear me out!

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    Food Is My Love Language

    I love me a good food metaphor. Seriously! They speak to my soul and my stomach. For better or worse, emotional eating is my first and favorite form of therapy. Growing up in a family that celebrated wins and losses with food, emotional eating was our love language (and still is to some degree).

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    Our Traditions Were Never Quite The Same

    The list of traditions on this holiday is long. Those not keen to read a novel would request I stop here. After all, the point isn’t to recount every last detail and every last memory of my childhood family. The point is to commemorate traditions loved and lost.

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I’m a dog lover, chocolate addict, warm bread sniffer, slow tea sipper, blank notebook hoarder, nomadic homebody. I seek out opportunities to live my life on purpose.


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