The funny thing about negativity is the ones who usually fluently speak this language are the ones who don’t even try, yet still feel as if they are entitled to criticize those who do. I’m finding that it’s impossible to live a life, striving towards your goals, without encountering negativity. At some point, someone’s not going…
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Homemade Fortune Cookies
If you were to open my wallet, you would find a dozen fortune cookie messages tucked inside the side panel. I have grown fond of saving all of the fortunes from the cookies I have opened in the past few years. Consider them like collector’s coins. Except they are paper. Inside a cookie. Some range from…
Grandma is sitting this one out on New Year’s…
This is the funny thing about holidays that require me to stay up into the wee hours of the night: I usually don’t celebrate them. (thankfully that only makes 1 holiday missed for the year) You see friends, I am what you call a “grandma”– no offense to the real grandmas out there. It’s just that I am…
Let us raise our glasses.
Hi, my friends! I hope that you all had a very merry holiday season. I missed you all so much in these past few days– it’s so good to be back. I had a really lovely, long holiday weekend full of: biking riding along the beach, sunbathing on the front porch, wine drinking, and hanging…
All I want for Christmas is new self-esteem (and french toast).
Virtual Advent Calendar: Being creative doesn’t mean that you need to go to extremes to impress people. Sometimes all it takes is to see things from a different perspective and to present it to someone from a new angle. That is the secret to creativity. Nothing fancy or far off concepts to understand. It has taken…
Santa Claus is coming to town (on a plate)
F&B Virtual Advent Calendar countdown: For me, it’s difficult to remember the day my parents sat me down to tell me that Santa doesn’t exist. Maybe it is somewhere deep down in the part of my brain labeled: “Cara’s Suppressed Childhood Memory Bank.” It’s quite possible that the trauma of such news sent me into a tizzy that I…
Grandma got ran over by her cookies…
Fork and Beans Virtual Advent Calendar (treats not included) Excuse me while I get my tissue and blow my nose as I sing, one last time, my favorite song from the past 2 weeks, “The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies”: (I cannot believe today is the last day of cookie making) 11 Mince”meat” failures, 10 Persimmon Cookies,…
