our fam jam
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I happened to see that yesterday was 33 Flavors Day, celebrating all things ice cream – and it gave me pause to share a little something ice cream related here with y’all. Here in the Hippie Hut, my better half and Bug have always been the ice cream people, more so than me. (I like… Read more
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*This was written for an SCWC essay about love – and I’m sharing it here for my Al’s birthday. Love you, sweet friend.* I laughingly say I’ve become a Swiftie in my old age because I was very late to the party, but one of my favorite Taylor songs is “Invisible Strings,” as it presents… Read more
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Today is our Lindsey’s 41st birthday – and, as always, we remember her and miss her so much. Always up for an adventure, she was a light and absolute sunshine in a tiny person. As I tell her every time I buy them, she is also the only person on this earth that could get… Read more
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A few days before Valentine’s Day, my better half and I swapped one of our gifts for each other – we are both terrible about waiting sometimes ❤ – and just started laughing because we are a matched set. Being big Nolan Ryan fans, we unknowingly had a Nolan Valentine’s Day this year, with Courtney… Read more
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Continuing this week’s 45 motif for my birthday, today I am thinking about favorite films. Before I met Courtney, I didn’t consider myself much of a movie person. On the other hand, he was an avid film fan, and, as he had a long recovery from a major back surgery in our first year together,… Read more
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Continuing with my lists of 45 for this, my birthday week, today was to be 45 films – and the list is ready; I am looking at it. However, I am setting it aside until tomorrow to instead post a list I had actually considered making and then decided not to. But Nora Ephron has… Read more
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It is my actual 45th birthday – and, as this week is dedicated to lists of 45, today will be 45 songs I dig for one reason or another. I’ve already done a post some time ago with my all time favorite songs – this list is different, more expansive, some old and new songs… Read more
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Tomorrow is my 45th birthday – and, as I say every year, after many harrowing hospital stays and several serious illnesses, I am deeply grateful for them all. Of course, today is a sick day – with all the weather changes and germs everywhere I could have predicted a puny birthday week – but spending… Read more
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Y’all. Henry Petunia and I, in all our autoimmune glory, are bundled, snuggled, huddled, nestled, snoodled up. Pick a word – we are inside. My word. As advertised, everything is frosty and temperatures are falling in our part of the world. The kicker is that we are now entering the “hard freeze” portion of this… Read more
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The other day I came across NPR’s annual “Year in Review: 50 Wonderful Things from 2023” and thoroughly enjoyed reading through it. NPR 50 Wonderful Things. As there are plenty of year end stories recapping the tragic things that have happened as well as all the loss that has been experienced this year, it is… Read more
