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Everything, is all. This month alone: A casket kissed. A baby lost. Hot stage lights and a Gruffalo mouse. Sprinkles on a sundae. Smoke in our hair, fevered cheeks. Buttercream licked from the whisk....
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12 Cakes: A Series
This is the story of a girl who was hungry. For what, I am oft unsure. But after decades of turning down dessert, of declaring a war against sugar, of craving salty over sweet at first glance, well? It...
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Cake No. 01: Milk & Wildflower Honey
As it stands, I’m not much for honey. But you know what I am one for? Honey-whipped cream, in a cold metal bowl fresh for the whisking. Taking turns getting elbow cramps with a daughter, both...
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Cake No. 02: The Chocolately Chocolate Cake
This is the cake you bake for your kids’ uncle. The one who’s not technically blood, but definitely brother. The one who never skips the occasion to send a handwritten letter from miles away, who shows...
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A Good Thing to Be
On a walk in the woods, it’s not uncommon to transform. Who do you want to be today? I ask. A hungry lion on the hunt! she’d roar on a Monday. An abandoned snow puppy, she’d whimper on a Tuesday. An...
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Cake No. 03: Apple Cider Donut Cake
You make this cake when it’s been overcast for four days and you’ve pulled another sweater out of storage for the week ahead. When it’s unseasonably gray, and you’re unseasonably gray, and if the...
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12 Books to Change Your Mind
If your home is carried by the spine of a book, if you find yourself up past midnight to devour just one last chapter, if you’ve ever left the party early because there’s a riveting tale tented on your...
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Cake No. 04: Lemon Berry Crumble
Well, this one simply didn’t turn out is what I’ll say first. It could have been a number of things: the slapdash sub of frozen berries upon realization that the toddler had eaten the remaining...
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3 Good-for-Me Habits, and Another One
First, something: I’m wary of assigning sanctimonious yarns to everyday behaviors. In truth, what makes for a good habit today doesn’t always carry the years. Related – For months, in college, I...
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How to Slow Your Life
Two years ago, on a brightly lit stage in West L.A., Maria Shriver asks me this: But how? How do you do it? What would you tell someone who wants to slow their life, but can’t? Who feels totally buried...
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