Monthly Archives: January 2009

Maker’s Diet: Day Three

By Erin | Published: January 17, 2009

Jesse, Kara, and I started the MD on Thursday of last week. So far, so good. I stocked up on goat cheese (tried goat gouda for the first time–eh, not the biggest fan). Thanks to Amie, I found great blueberries on sale (98 cents a carton!). I’ve been eating cherries like they’re going extinct. The [...]

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Menu, Jan. 15-18

By Erin | Published: January 14, 2009

I may not stick to this schedule, but here are the meals I’m planning over the next few days. Those on MD, let me know what you’re planning! I put chicken soup on the weekend so I can make a big batch of it and have lunches for a few days next week. Typical breakfasts [...]

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Jesus Wept.

By Erin | Published: January 13, 2009

The day my grandmother died, a friend of ours found out his brother had been in a terrible accident. And two days later, the brother was gone, leaving behind a wife and children, three brothers, parents. Everyone. The depth of their grief is something I have never experienced and cannot imagine, and for the past [...]

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The Trumpet of Conscience

By Erin | Published: January 10, 2009

If you haven’t read The Trumpet of Conscience, a book of the last speeches given by Martin Luther King Jr., go right now and get it. Right now! You’ll finish it in no time, and if you changed a few dates and names of wars, you’d swear it was written today. An excerpt. This was [...]

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“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

By Erin | Published: January 7, 2009

(subject line: Oscar Wilde) After my last post, I put together a rockin’ library list and a solid grocery list and headed out for an afternoon of errands. On the way to my next-to-last stop, my mom called and told me my grandmother had just passed away. Dad had gone up to West Virginia right [...]

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