Writings & Musings
THIS MONTH’S BOOK
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jeanette McCurdy
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This Is Your Mind On Plants – Michael Pollan
I stumbled on “This Is Your Mind On Plants” whilst McCabe and I perused the Griffin Bay Bookstore in Friday Harbor, Washington in the summer of 2023. That family vacation was initially planned to be spent in Maine but due to some health issues with my mother in law, we ended up going back to…
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The weekend update – A Successful Loaf!
We had the funnest weekend here in DC. Friday morning I went on a solo date to my favorite tea house in DC, Ching Ching Cha, named after the owner who established DCs first traditional chinese tea house. It is a beautiful third space with the most relaxing atmosphere and one of the more special…
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A Tale of Two Sourdoughs
Welcome to my chaotic experiment – Cultivating our sourdough starter All of my life I have enjoyed a good scientific endeavor. I was definitely one of those kids who would waste up all of the shampoo and soaps in order to make new concoctions to see what would happen with them, eventually resulting in nothing…
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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
If I ever find out that Grady Hendrix is a creep, I’ll be sorely disappointed because I enjoy his horror novels so much. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, henceforth to be known as TSBCGTSV, is the fourth novel of Hendrix’s that I have read and is thus far, my favorite. His most…