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It Started With a Watermelon
Tara and I go grocery shopping pretty much every weekend. Usually, it’s an uneventful excursion. We pick up pasta and pork and peanuts, buy bananas and butter and bread, add apples and asparagus and artichokes, mix in milk and mayo and mustard, choose cherries and chicken and cheese. And then our cart is full, so we check…
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A Vintage Seafood-y Weekend
While pop-up campers were representative of my childhood, I’ve always had a fondness for vintage travel trailers from the 1950s. No surprise, given my love of all things retro. Think shiny silver Airstreams that looked very Space-Agey back then, or my ultimate dream machine, a Volkswagen Camper Bus. So when a friend of ours told us…
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Dig The Pop-Up Camper!
If you’re a fan of Instagram or have a Facebook account, you’re probably familiar with Throwback Thursday. Or “Hashtag TBT” as the social media savvy like to refer to it. #TBT is a fun little activity in which you share a photo from your past. There are no strict guidelines or rules to what you…
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Mightier Than Julius Caesar
If you’re like me, you’ve probably followed the travails of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 for weeks now. It’s kind of hard not to get sucked in: this story has it all. Mystery, drama, and intrigue. Stolen passports. Deleted flight simulator data. Cell phones that keep on ringing. It has become the biggest mystery of modern times,…
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When Life Hands You Lemons, Ask For Limes
We were shopping for groceries last weekend and needed limes. I was dismayed to find them priced at 89 cents each. Normally, they cost about a quarter. “Do they think we’re rubes?” I said. “Forget it. We’ll buy them somewhere else.” The next day, we were Somewhere Else. And guess what? They were selling limes for 99 cents…
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Tang’s For The Memories
I’ve made no secret of my love for all things retro, but I really took things a step farther over the weekend when I bought Tang from the grocery store. I’d been craving it for some time now, which is really weird, because I don’t actually remember drinking it as a kid. Or if I did,…
TAG! YOU’RE IT.
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