recipes
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For Best Results, Follow Instructions
There may be no sentence in the English language more consistently ignored than the instructions that come with something we are absolutely certain we can figure out ourselves. Instructions, after all, are apparently written for other people. People who lack intuition. People who cannot look at seventeen pieces of hardware, three boards, two brackets, twelve…
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What My Father Left Behind
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” — Exodus 20:12 Tomorrow would have been my dad’s eighty-sixth birthday. He has been gone a few years now, and birthdays have a way of making absence feel different. They bring back memories,…
