Monthly Archives: May 2012

recipes

Light and Sweet: Chamomile-Honey Cookies

Baking sheet of unbaked cookies

Sometimes inspiration strikes at the most inopportune times: When your plate is already full, and you’re not in a place to do anything about it. That happened to me a few weeks ago, when two serendipitous things arrived in my mail box at the same time: Joy the Baker‘s cookbook, and my May Pairings Box from Turntable Kitchen. Tucked in my box was a small packet of buckwheat flour and a bag of sweet smelling chamomile flowers. Joy’s beautiful book features chamomile cupcakes, which is where my mind immediately went. But then it drifted.
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Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites

My absolute favorite thing about this Friday? I’m done with this:

a stack of papers in a UPS envelope

I love doing editorial work. I hate that I have to do it in my free time, thus giving up huge chunks of said free time for the duration of a project. Dropping this off at UPS today was the best Friday Favorite. But I do have some other things to share with with you this week that might be a little more interesting.
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traveling

Santa Cruz, lovely Santa Cruz

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I was lucky. I went to college in one of the most beautiful places on earth. I moved away from home and into a dorm room that overlooked a peaceful tree-encircled meadow (well, peaceful when there weren’t drum circles going on). I walked to my classes on winding trails through groves of stoic, ancient redwoods. I eventually lived in charming cottages on charming streets, mere blocks from the Pacific. I woke in the morning to the sounds of seals barking playfully, and fell asleep at night listening to frogs croaking their quiet, calming calls. Santa Cruz can overwhelm with its beauty, and when you’re twenty, it easy to take that for granted. I go back now and I think, my god, I was so lucky.

I want to go to there

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