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My mom and I had made it two days without her hurling one of her zingers at me. A zinger is the kind of offhand, but pointed, comment that moms are especially good at flinging at their adult daughters. On Day Two, while we were preparing dinner, Mom turned to me and said “Do you […]

In preparation for my August caramels and candy class, I made a test batch of sea salt caramels. I’ve made these countless times before, but hadn’t done so in the last two years, so I thought I needed to brush up on my skills. I used my own personal variation of this recipe. This time

One of the sisters at my parents’ church gave this funny little instrument to me when she heard that I sell vintage items. She told my mom she’d had it for a long time and said that I could probably get good money for it. But I don’t want to sell it because (1) it’s

I found this vintage lamp on the sidewalk a few months ago but hadn’t done anything with it because it wasn’t working. My parents were here last weekend, so I asked my dad to take a look at it because he can fix pretty much anything (thanks to years of high school shop classes and
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