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    Grandma Betty’s Frozen Fruit Salad

    Some families have stacks of handwritten notecards filling little file boxes with enough ratios and ingredients to fill a cookbook. My family isn’t one of those families. We have a few family recipes,…

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    Permission To Be Unavailable

    The intersection of connection and technology is amazing. Cellphones and an endless network of cellular towers. Public wifi networks at every coffee shop, restaurant and even on airplanes. We all carry a smart…

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    A Few Good Weekends

    It was mid-January when I received a very long, well-thought out text from a friend. It was the kind of content she would have preferred to send in tiny handwritten letters filling every…

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    So Much For Consistency

    The activity app on my phone reminds me every day that most of my trends are heading downward. Less distance covered each day. Less exercise minutes and fewer movement-related calories burned. Apparently my…