Category Archives: joy

Serving size: 1 sleeve

It’s Girl Scout Cookie time! It’s that time of year when boxes of cookies are airlifted into the workplace by parents of Girl Scouts who have strong-armed every person they know into buying cookies to support the most wholesome and … Continue reading

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What a rotten thing to wake up to

Uh-oh! Someone forgot to buy coffee! What a rotten thing to wake up to. We had always lived under the delusion in our home that coffee wasn’t really a “staple” like sugar, flour or rice, that it really wasn’t a … Continue reading

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Deadly cold

While the appearance of thousands of dead birds in Arkansas on New Year’s eve is turning out to be a real head-scratcher for authorities, I believe I know the cause: the fearsome cold wave that has gripped portions of the … Continue reading

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