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Baked Garlic (I Hope We Can Still Be Friends Tomorrow)
Baked garlic with a slather of melted brie on a cracker is divine. Of course, I live in a household whose occupants believe there is no such thing as too much garlic! The four of us have been known to each consume our own head of garlic . . . and guarantee that no one else…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
Descending to the dungeon of San Juan’s Castillo San Cristóbal definitely had an eerie feel to it. The feeling was only compounded when we stopped to examine the sketches on the dungeon walls, made by a prisoner long ago. Click on any photo to enlarge. The story behind the drawings in the dungeon is recounted here.…
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Secrets of Parenting Success
What is the secret formula to raising a happy kid? a successful child? Since we are just making it up as we go along in this household on many days, I certainly don’t have the answer. But we remind ourselves of certain basic principles from time to time. “It’s not our job to toughen our…
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Getting Out of the Way
“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.” ~ Robert Brault And so it begins . . . Or depending on your perspective, and so it ends. The first of the college acceptance letters arrived in the mail this week and we were…
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Getting My NaBloPoMo On
Life is a blur . . . but at least I feel like I am running forward, as opposed to churning endlessly on the treadmill! So, what better time to join NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) and post daily for the month of November (remember, even brief posts count toward this effort!). It is…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 