From the monthly archives: December 2011

Food on Fridays: Shrimp in Garlic Cream Sauce

By annkroeker On December 29, 2011 · 6 Comments

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For the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. We’re pretty relaxed over here, and stories and photos are as welcome as menus and [...]

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Curiosity Journal: December 28, 2011

By annkroeker On December 28, 2011 · 8 Comments

Each Wednesday I’ve been recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the previous week using these tag words: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing.

Now I’m simplifying the journal, to see if I like a slimmed-down version. Bookmark [...]

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Season of Creativity

By annkroeker On December 27, 2011 · 21 Comments

Heavy, wet flakes of snow are dropping steadily from the sky today, weighing down branches, muffling sound. The girls are playing a CD of a singer whose mellow voice is new to me. I have brewed loose tea in my blue-and-white Spode teapot, poured it into a Christmas cup, stirred in a teaspoon of [...]

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Happy Birthday

By annkroeker On December 24, 2011 · 5 Comments

One of our daughters has a December birthday. A week ago we celebrated with signage and candles and cake and presents. When her party was over, I started to tear down the streamers, but for the first time in 14 years I paused before pulling down the “Happy Birthday” banner and thought, you [...]

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Food on Fridays: Chocolate Decadence Cake

By annkroeker On December 23, 2011 · 6 Comments

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For the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. We’re pretty relaxed over here, and stories and photos are as welcome as menus and [...]

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Curiosity Journal: December 21, 2011

By annkroeker On December 21, 2011 · 10 Comments

Each Wednesday I’ve been recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the previous week. Tag words were: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing.

This week I’m abbreviating, simplifying, and amending the journal. Like so much of life, it’s an experiment.

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As part of the experiment of [...]

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What Lies Behind the Family Bible’s Names and Dates

By annkroeker On December 20, 2011 · 15 Comments

I pulled out my camera to snap some pictures of the four-inch-thick family Bible my dad recently acquired from a distant cousin—second cousin once or twice removed, or something like that. This particular family Bible belonged to Dad’s grandparents, but had been passed down another branch of the family tree. Until now. It recently leaped [...]

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Who We Are Becoming

By annkroeker On December 19, 2011 · 13 Comments

Saturday night I tore off pieces of a Post-It to mark passages in Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World. As I reached the last lines of the last chapter, closed the book and set it on the bedside table, I continued to think about story and place and self and [...]

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Food on Fridays: Bûche de Noël

By annkroeker On December 16, 2011 · 17 Comments

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For the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. We’re pretty relaxed over here, and stories and photos are as welcome as menus and [...]

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Curiosity Journal: Geography of Mind, Birdfeeders, Sarah Kay on Story, and Mini Flash Mob

By annkroeker On December 14, 2011 · 14 Comments

Each Wednesday I’m recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the past week. Tag words are: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing.

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Some of you have mentioned that you’re keeping a Curiosity Journal, as well. If you do, leave your link in the comments so that we can visit and enjoy [...]

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