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Last night I test drove Kitchen Confidence! I picked two recipes to make for dinner: Pan Seared Spanish Steaks & Summer Bean, Pea & Radish Salad. I’ll say right up front that the sauce for the steaks was so swoon-worthy, Steve grabbed a leftover hotdog bun (the only bread we had nearby) to sop it […]
Read MoreWe are going on vacation! Our ride to the airport leaves at 4am…our amazing contractor will be here at the house installing the last pieces of our kitchen while we’re gone…it’s all a bit bananas…and I’m so excited my face hurts from glee. We won’t be holding Faith Community gatherings for the next two Sundays. […]
Read MoreFrom the back cover: “When your life falls apart—through a death, a lost relationship, a diagnosis—you want more than anything to know that your pain has a purpose. And that beyond your pain, a new day awaits. Tricia Lott Williford discovered this in a few tragic hours when her thirty-five-year-old husband died unexpectedly. In And Life Comes […]
Read MoreI still have this stupid cold. Or flu. Not sure which. Sorry to burden you with my ongoing sinus grossness. It’s far from the biggest thing going on in the world right now. But this is the second day in a row when I’ve looked at my “Add New Post” page here on the blog […]
Read MoreA friend and I went to a Meet-up last night for a start-up company called Happier. It was way more fun than we expected. Admittedly, our expectations were low, as the last networking event we went to turned out to be a thinly veiled recruitment party for a religion. So all Happier had to do […]
Read MoreI read two articles this morning about happiness & life satisfaction and I’m trying to figure out how they intersect (Pondering this sort of thing makes me happy & satisfied, so, you know…winning!) The first article, Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy, has me thinking about Madonna. Which makes no outward sense, but stay with […]
Read MoreAbout every three years, I re-read Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer. It helps me stop the busy swirl of life churning around in my head and organize things a bit. I’m in the midst of one of these re-reads now. One of her recommendations is Stop wondering. Wondering, she points out, is “to be […]
Read MoreA secret, unfulfilled dream of mine is to stay in one place and develop lasting relationships over the course of several decades. I’m not wired that way – to stay – but I admire it, and every once in awhile I look at my parents or other friends and family who have pulled this off […]
Read MoreThree summers ago I was so depressed I could barely get out of bed. This wasn’t the wonky chemical kind of depression, but rather the kind that comes when too many things have gone wrong. That it was a “reasonable” sort of depression – an appropriate reaction to circumstances, you might say – didn’t help. […]
Read MoreAnne Lamott posted this on Facebook today, in response to someone who asked, “What job would you want if you weren’t a writer?” She said she’d want to sit by the door of her church with bowls of M&Ms and cherries and the Communion elements. She said many beautiful things, but here is the part […]
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Trish Ryan 