Christmas in September
Today, I celebrated like it was Christmas in September. Mom and Dad’s care package came, and oh boy, was it fun to open! Hazelnut Coffee-Mate Creamer. Did I ever crave this before? No, but now I do! A sharp vegetable…
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.Nasi Goreng.
This past Wednesday, I hosted the Hardemink family over for Nasi Goreng, a Dutch dish that I grew up eating at my Oma’s house. It is fried eggs served over a spicy Indonesian mix of rice and ham. To my…
Angels on Guard
In the blue and grey, It occurs to me, That all life’s possibilities, Seem endless. Seem wide. And in each day, I wrap my mind, Around the things I’m trying to find, Like courage. Like love. For, so subtly, In…
Pride
Ever seen the 1985 classic, “Out of Africa”? The movie, based on Isak Dinesan’s book, “Out of Africa,” is good…but the book is way better. In one chapter, Dinesan writes: “Pride is faith in the idea that God had, when…
And you thought…
…RED BULL was an American thing! They are more gungo-ho about it than you are!