But my low opinion of the Food Network actually went back a little further in time. Back to when they were a relatively tiny, sat-sack st...

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Definitely one of my favorite things about our new kitchen is the bookcase under one bank of windows. I can finally keep all my cookbook...

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"It's just that for three years Michael has rejected every idea I bring in as being too dark, too expensive, too period . . ...

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia , who graciously hosted it for a long, long ti...

We are pretty much moved into the new kitchen.  There are some details and punch list items to go, and the outside is not finished yet.  But...

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Moonlight Mile picks up the story of Amanda McCready ten years after the end of Gone, Baby, Gone . Amanda is missing again and Patrick...

Fast forward sixty years and I realize I'm practicing medicine kind of like my dad -- minus the index cards [for medical records]....

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The inside part of the kitchen remodel is almost finished.  Several details to go, like an Italian tile thing to hang behind the range, the ...

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Happy Independence Day!

Beast in View won Margaret Millar the Edgar Award for the best mystery of 1956, the third year the award was given. Set in the seedier ...

And this is exactly how a woman agrees to see a man second time after finding him neither interesting, intelligent, nor compelling: He a...

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Finally! The white tile got here. Now the final kitchen dominoes can fall.  This week is was install tile, grout tile, caulk bottom of tile,...