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  • Nov
    2024
    18
    2024 / Nov / 18

    The Boozy Apple Cinnamon Sourdough Bundt

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    • / tags: baking, Bundt, cake, dessert

    Back in 2011, I made my first original recipe cake in observation of National Bundt Day, and it is now the longest creative streak I’ve maintained in my life.

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  • Aug
    2024
    03
    2024 / Aug / 03

    The 2024 Summer of (half) 1000 Tomatoes

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    • / tags: gardening, tomatoes

    About 2 months after my 2023 Summer of 1000 Tomatoes post, we found out my husband had cancer and pretty much our entire lives revolved around nothing but that for about 8 months. I managed to keep all the plants from dying and they gave us a better harvest than we deserved based on how little I gave them in return.

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  • Nov
    2023
    18
    2023 / Nov / 18

    The Peach Melba Bundt

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    • / tags: baking, Bundt, cake, dessert

    November 15 of 2023 found me looking back over a streak that began on that same date in 2011, the first year I was aware of National Bundt Cake Day in time to do something about it.

    Unfortunately, November 15 of 2023 also found me looking 5 days into the future, when my husband would have his second round of chemo.

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  • Oct
    2023
    21
    2023 / Oct / 21

    So My Husband Has Cancer. Again.

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    • / tags: cancer, marriage

    Not the same husband. The other husband I had who had cancer died in 2001, four months after we got married. It sucked. A lot.

    Now, 22 years later, my husband has cancer. If I hadn’t already been to one “husband with cancer” rodeo in my lifetime, or if it weren’t the same type of cancer my father died from last year, I might be processing the situation differently.

    But for the past 3 months, I have been deeply entrenched in a state that mental health professionals commonly refer to as “freaking right the fuck out over pretty much everything”.

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  • May
    2023
    19
    2023 / May / 19

    The 2023 Summer of 1000 Tomatoes

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    • / tags: gardening, tomatoes

    If memory serves, 2017 was the first garden year I set the goal of someday having a Summer of 1000 Tomatoes. In 2019, I harvested in the mid 600s. Not a bad crop for a small container garden in a big city, but I still had hope for more.

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  • Dec
    2022
    02
    2022 / Dec / 02

    25 Days of Drinkmas 2022

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    • / tags: booze, drinkmas, holidays

    We started observing the 25 Days of Drinkmas in 2020, a year that called for a booze advent calendar if ever a year called for a booze advent calendar.

    We repeated the event in 2021, another year that absolutely warranted nightly cocktails for 3+ weeks straight, but it was cut short by some unexpected holiday travel.

    And here we are in 2022. I’m trying to keep this light and fun, but this season started challenging me at about 10:00 a.m. on December 1st and shows no signs of letting up. But at least there will be fancy cocktails.

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  • Nov
    2022
    16
    2022 / Nov / 16

    The Rusty Nail Bundt

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    • / tags: alcohol, baking, booze, Bundt, cake, dessert

    This was my 12th time observing National Bundt Cake Day by creating an original recipe cake. I woke up in the wee small hours of the morning of November 11 realizing I had no idea what I was going to bake, and almost immediately thereafter knowing this was the cake.

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  • Oct
    2022
    12
    2022 / Oct / 12

    The Ghost Egg Scared Of Its Own Tits Cake

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    • / tags: baking, dessert, Halloween

    Years ago, a friend posted this image on Facebook

    and I laughed hysterically for about 7 hours.

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  • Jul
    2022
    18
    2022 / Jul / 18

    The Saga of Gabby Reece’s Mom’s Harp

    • posted in Relationships
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    • / tags: gabby reece, harp, photography

    Quit job, sold house, drove
    Looking for America
    Finding mostly bars

    -Jerry Seeger

    The above haiku was written shortly after Gabby Reece’s Mom’s Harp went into a storage pod in San Diego in 2004, where it languished as the author did exactly what he described in that 17-syllable masterpiece, before he moved to Prague and left Gabby Reece’s Mom’s Harp even further in his rearview.

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  • Jun
    2022
    30
    2022 / Jun / 30

    In It To End It

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    • / tags: fundraisers, in it to end it

    In 2021, I participated for the first time in an event called In It To End It. It’s a fitness-based awareness & fundraiser for the Bay Against Abuse Coalition.

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  • Dec
    2021
    02
    2021 / Dec / 02

    Adventures in Lockdown: 25 Days of Drinkmas 2021

    • posted in Adventures in Lockdown, Foodstuffs
    • / with 1 comments
    • / tags: alcohol, holidays, lockdown

    When we completed our 25 Days of Drinkmas in 2020, we had every intention of doing it again in 2021. What we didn’t realize was that it would still be categorized as an Adventure in Lockdown.

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  • Nov
    2021
    14
    2021 / Nov / 14

    The 10th Anniversary Sourdough Molasses Bundt

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    This year marked my 10th anniversary of observing National Bundt Day by baking an original recipe Bundt cake. And I almost missed it.

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