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winning in the kitchen: JBF Cookbook Awards 2012
You may realize that I have a bit of an admiration for cookbooks. And magazines with recipes. I’ll blame it on the Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines that I used to peruse at my Grandma’s house… and the pretty pictures…
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flashback friday: spring sing-ing 2000
Each Spring, UCLA puts on an epic all-campus talent show known simply as “Spring Sing.” It’s held in the outdoor tennis arena (the Los Angeles Tennis Center) on a usually warm Spring night in early May, and it’s really one…
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just another picnic day at the farm
Picnic Day at UC Davis is a 98 year-old tradition and the largest student run event in the country. It started out as simply a day to escape from the hectic early 20th century life on Berkeley’s campus to the…
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32 musings…
Last night, Miss L and I were gazing up at the starlight from her twilight turtle, and singing bedtime songs as we do each night. It was while singing along to one of her new favorites, “The Rainbow Connection” that…
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bye bye DirecTV… hello Roku for now
Sometime last month, I started to get really angry every time I saw a DirecTV advertisement, be it in the paper or on TV. You know… the ones that promise you the moon and stars for negative money. I was…
a career mom trying to make every day extraordinary
