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What I'm Grateful For: Making it Worse  There's a children's book I read to my kids years ago called (I think!) "It Could Always Be Worse." Basically, there's this guy complaining about his small house, [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Food (Part 3 of 3)  Part 3: Alchemy and All the Tastes I was reading the other day about the difference between a cook and a chef. A cook follows [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Food (Part 2 of 3)Part 1: Sharing Food, Together Entire books and research studies (mostly anthropological ones) have been done around the breaking of bread, around sharing food together, communally. Symbolic rituals, [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Food (Part 1 of 3)  Part 1: Fasting As I write this, I'm simmering a batch of bone broth (made from bones from my sister's grass fed lambs and my [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Editing  The process of editing your work (or someone else's) is a critical and necessary part of creating a finished product. It's also a task I dread and procrastinate on before [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Yardwork  There's nothing more fun than getting out in the yard, especially in spring, and launching into the process of getting everything raked, clipped, pruned, mowed and tilled. It's not [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Books Books. They are straight-up, always,100% something I'm perpetually grateful for. I have loved books as long as I can remember, having been a rather awkward, clumsy child with large glasses [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Washing the Dishes  Wait a minute - I am not actually one of those people who genuinely love doing the dishes. I envy those strange creatures, those who feel joy and [...]

What I'm Grateful For: Constancy There are a few things that are fairly fundamental to success. Some of them are bright and shiny and fun - but others are much more drab and not [...]