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Pretties from Stitch Fix

A few people have asked me about Stitch Fix lately, so I thought I would show you what I got in my most recent box.  If you’ve never heard of Stitch Fix, it’s a personal styling service through the mail.  You fill in your size and preferences, and they send you clothes to try on!  Simply decide what to keep, and send the rest back in a pre-paid Priority Mail…

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Weekly Confessions: I’m the Worst Food Stylist Ever Edition

You may have noticed a decline in the number of recipes I’ve been posting on InspiredRD.  Where it used to be one or two new recipes a week, you might be lucky now to get one or two a month.  I’ve been in a rut, and I couldn’t figure out why until a few days ago. I was helping a friend shoot some food photos for a fundraiser, and it…

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Thankfulness Lately

Lately I’m thankful for cool evenings watching little guys swing big bats. For boot weather and shopping for vintage goodies on Instagram. For museums that expand our minds and let us get our hands dirty. For finishing off our baseball season with friends and gum. For starting the offseason with Dr. Seuss in the backyard, and endless games of croquet. For new friends at the farm, and game night shenanigans.…

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How to Feed the World

Today is World Food Day.  A day to not only open our eyes to the issue of chronic hunger, but a day to take a stand against it. I can’t feed the world. But I can feed Chereka. I can’t feed the world. But I can feed Reymart. I can’t feed the world. But I can choose to partner with an organization that creates a sustainable future for those who…

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An open letter to experienced moms

When we’re young, we see our future parental life through rose colored glasses and make statements like, “My child will never do that.”  We wrinkle our noses at kids in pajamas with wild hair and messy faces at the grocery store.  We sigh and roll our eyes at crying babies on airplanes.  We naively believe in the family portrait painted in our mind of how our family will look and…

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Celiac Guilt

Celia Guilt

Celiac guilt, have you ever had it? Joe missed a birthday party today because I was sleeping off a gluten hangover. My parents who keep a gluten-free kitchen just for me are pulling packages out of the trash trying to figure out what in the world could have made me sick at their house the past two Saturdays.  Everything is gluten-free.  There is absolutely no reason I should be sick…

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I’m not sure how to have this conversation…

This week I read a post about food.  It was meant to be funny, and it was, but the comments left me scratching my head.  Basically a whole lot of “ain’t nobody got time for that” sentiments regarding thoughtfulness of food purchases.  And I started wondering… About the difference between true ignorance and intentional ignorance. About the difference between genuinely not knowing and sticking fingers in ears and saying, “la la…

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