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Article: “I hate Strong Female Characters”
Nowadays the princesses all know kung fu, and yet they’re still the same princesses. They’re still love interests, still the one girl in a team of five boys, and they’re all kind of the same. They march on screen, punch someone to show how they don’t take no shit, throw around a couple of one-liners…
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Parenting: You probably aren’t supposed to start with 6
The Man & I have been teaching teens or working with youth groups or trying to feed hungry teenagers who’ve landed at our house for several years now. Sometime in the past decade, we realized this might not be the usual way to fall into spending a ridiculous amount of time with kids. I mean,…
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Tide Ya Over
Man, y’all. August has been a total whirlwind and its only the 7th. Work is crankin with plenty of projects to design and manage; the hubby is about to start school again; we did a stint as relief house parents at Calvary Home for Children last weekend and another one coming up. So I’m not…
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Quotable: Don’t be anxious
Quotable: Don’t be anxious This short and fantastic post will make your busy Tuesday better, I promise. Guaranteed. Props to my friend Mark for pointing it out. When the Spirit is active, our work is not a burden that buries us but a dance that invigorates us.
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Formula for perfect pasta
Formula for perfect pasta I’ve always been a “by the seat of my pants” cook. I love flipping through recipe books but what keeps me going in the kitchen is an internal GPS for what works in the kitchen. This article from Bon Appetit magazine a couple years ago covers the basics of making great…
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