Friday Favorites
Pictures or it didn’t happen
One week in to the overhauled, new and yet-to-be-determined-if-improved Friday Favorites and I’m already living up to my prediction that they might not always make it up by Friday. Go easy on me, ya’ll. I’ve had a rough week. It was take-your-daughter-back-to-college week, or as I’ve come to know it as, three to seven days…
Read MorePictures or it didn’t happen
“Pictures or it didn’t happen.” It’s not just how much of America’s youth — which is how I now describe the under-40 set — lives life these days, but also pretty much become our motto around here over the past few years. I’m not kidding, I take pictures of everything. My food, my cats, my…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: This day
The tragic events that happened in Orlando over the past week — all three of them horrific and unimaginable in their own ways — have left me breathless. Since I’m not the type of person who consumes information to cope (preferring instead to live in an ignorant fog of denial) I’ve been scrolling my newsfeed with…
Read MoreSkinnyPop and wine: Your new OTP
It’s that time of year again, folks. Time for gluttony and indulgence and feeling like shit about yourself when you wake up in the morning and realize how you spent your evening. That’s right, it’s The Bachelorette season. But while it’s easy to feel guilt over the two hours of your life you sacrifice each week,…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: Can’t Stop the Feeling
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday… Damn song. This morning Thing 2 gave me that fun little ear worm and for the past hour and a half it’s been EATING AWAY AT MY BRAIN. Partyin’, partyin’, yeah! Partyin’, partyin’, yeah! It’s okay. I’ll get her back later by singing “It’s a Small World”…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: May Days
May is my favorite month. Sure, I like to tell July that it’s the best and that I wish its days would last forever, but that’s usually just to butter it up so it gives me at least 25 perfect days of hot-but-not-too-hot weather, weekends at the lake with low humidity and no wind, mosquitoes…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: Flatbreads
When people ask me what my favorite food is, my answer is easy. Not like sandwich bread—in fact, we never even have that in the house—but crusty, artisany breads. (I’m not entirely sure what that means—but whenever that word is used to describe a loaf of bread it’s a kind I need to GET IN MY BELLY.)…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: Hibernation
The Friday Favorites are back, ya’ll. At least they are for this week. Next Friday morning I’ll be picking up my favorite college girl at the airport for a short weekend visit home, so I’m not making any promises. Although, it sounds like next week’s Friday Favorites’ post just wrote itself. Bam. So about an hour…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: Ho Ho Ho-Liday Edition!
You know how over the past six months or so I’ve started every FF post with an apology for being lazy skipping a few weeks? Not today, my friends. Sure, I didn’t post last week, but instead of an apology I’m going to say this: You are welcome.Because after you get through this list I’m…
Read MoreFriday Favorites: Thanksgiving to-do list
Good grief. I think I need to apologize—again—to those of you who look forward to the Friday Favorites and have been left without purpose for the past month and forced to spend the entirety of your weekends moping around cursing me for my deliquency and your despondency. Sorry, mom. But seriously, you guys. Way back in oh-twelve when…
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