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Space
I discovered while living in West Chester that I am profoundly affected by my physical space. I haven’t yet determined whether that is good or bad. I’m choosing for now to accept that it just is. I realized that there are a few characteristics of my space that I need to feel optimal. I need…
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Famous Farm
My childhood home is a cover girl. Please excuse the egregious use of Comic Sans or something like it on the cover. It’s definitely not the first time the homestead has appeared in this publication; a couple years ago my dad was interviewed as part of a feature on high tech farms in the area.
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Dairyland Antiques: Documenting a disappearing treasure
It’s hard for me to say how long I’ve loved this place. Since high school, at least. I would wander through looking for vintage scarves, bags, and costume jewelry, admiring furniture I had nowhere to put and no money to buy. I once dragged Chad through it, stopping to show him a ring I really…
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Dish Outtakes: Is It Still Local if It Came from Three Hours Away?
… I say yes, as long as it came from my parents’ farm or somewhere else in the Valley, and especially if I helped harvest it with my own hands. A couple weekends ago, I went back home to do corn. I didn’t decide I was going to go until the last minute, but ultimately,…
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On (Relative) Stability
Feist – Get It Wrong, Get It Right by Interscope Records This has been the first full year that I have lived in the same space since 2004. I spent college moving from building to building, sometimes for as little as six weeks before moving again. I took very few of my things to Spain…
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30 Days – Day 29
Supper. I am almost daily uninspired about what to make for supper. And yes, I say “supper.” Dinner, to my farmer dad, is the meal that happens sometime around noon. Hence, supper. It is the eternal question. But I have a few go-to options. One of them is 4H Special, named such because my mom…