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Advent Reflections: Home
One of the nice things about moving to Bainbridge Island is that we’re closer to Lily’s godfather, Arun, and his family, who have a home just across the Puget Sound in Snoqualmie. We met Arun when he...
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Advent Reflections: Calm
It’s a chaotic morning. I’m at my “desk,” aka the kitchen table, trying to write, but family members, both the human and furry variety, constantly stream in and out. Andrew’s in a rush to get to work,...
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Advent Reflections: Homemade Treasures
For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved making things. I come by this honestly, with grandmothers, grandfathers, parents, aunts, and uncles who are creative souls, whether they’re cooking delicious...
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Advent Reflections: Delight
My mom gave me Ross Gay’s BOOK OF DELIGHTS last year for Christmas. Gay, a poet and professor at Indiana University, spent a year writing an essay every day about something that delighted him. In an...
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Advent Reflections: Love
Twenty-six years ago today, Tim Taylor proposed at the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. I remember it was a very cold night, but Tim insisted on driving to the White House to see the tree....
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My New Year’s Resolution 2021: No More Tsundoku
Never in a million years did I imagine one of my New Year’s resolutions would be to read more books. But here we are. It’s not that I’m not reading. Last year, I must’ve read about 5,000 essays and...
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Something to Listen to: The Magnus Archives
Magnus Institute illustration by Lexie Taylor Do you listen to podcasts? I’ve just started my first and, surprisingly, it’s in the horror genre. Horror is my least favorite thing, but my girls love it...
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Book Bento Box
I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve just discovered @bookbento, a virtual gallery of great books accompanied by still lifes of meaningful objects. I’m excited to make one for THE ADVENT BOX, and...
View ArticleTim Urban: Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
Andrew shared this video with me and it’s laugh-out-loud funny. Here’s the description: “Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting...
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Mark & Diane’s Fajitas
When Tim and I got married twenty-five years ago, I planned to give cookbooks as favors to our wedding guests, who’d shared their favorite recipes with us. I didn’t manage to produce the cookbooks in...
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