Every year the second it starts getting dark before dinner, I want something warm in my hands, and this is the drink I keep coming back to. It’s herbal chai steeped good and strong, a teaspoon of Postum stirred in, then cream and sugar until it tastes like something worth sitting down for. The Postum…
The First Chicken Pot Pie I Ever Ate I vividly remember sitting at Marie Callender’s with my family after a funeral of some sort when I ordered chicken pot pie for the first time. I don’t remember whose funeral it was, which feels like information I should probably know, but I DO remember the pot…
I want to influence you to build a beautiful life right where you already are. Not the life you will have someday when things are easier, but this one. There is so much good already sitting in front of us, and I want to help you see it. I want to help you mend your…
Okay, homemade mayo. I put this off for way too long because it sounded like one of those things that requires too much from me. It does not. It takes about two minutes, and once you do it once you will feel a little silly about how long you avoided it. I know I did….
I come from a family rooted in tradition. Our traditions take many forms, from big family gatherings to recipes to silly little things we do year after year. Some are meaningful, some are ridiculous, and some have been around so long I’m not even sure any of us remember how they started. But I really…
I was nine years old when I begged my mom to throw this picture away. I thought I looked fat. That was the whole reason. It is the first photo I can remember looking at and thinking, wait, is that what I look like? She kept it anyway. I am so grateful she did. It…
9 years ago, I had the coolest experience The kind you can’t plan. In 2018 I was in the thick of motherhood with three little kids at home, endless messes, and no breaks. One day I left the house just to leave the house. It had probably been a week or two since I’d gone…
I finished the first draft of Lydia, which I knew was approximately step 10 in a 5,000-step journey. I’ve published two books before, a children’s book and a cookbook, along with multiple digital downloads, so I’m not completely new to publishing. But this feels entirely different. There is a rather enormous distance between “I wrote…
Right before we moved to Michigan in 2015, I hosted a murder mystery party with my family and we had SO much fun. The problem was finding a good game for 14 people. They were expensive, you could really only play them once, and the host had to know everything beforehand. So the person who…
Let me start by saying I am not a homesteader. I don’t live on 40 acres, milk a cow before breakfast, or possess several very important skills I assume I’ll need if society collapses. But over the past several years, Ammon and I have become increasingly interested in learning how to do things for ourselves….
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