How to make the best cup of coffee

June 22, 2026
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☕ I love me a good cup of coffee! But what do the experts say about what the best cup of coffee entails? I did some research. Now, let me go on record and say I do not follow these directions entirely or even mostly. But they're good to know, because hey, one day? I just might take it a bit more...
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cursing

October 17, 2012
One of my friends tweeted me "Lord love a duck...." and it got me thinking about alternative curse phrases. So I did a little research. Here are a few that I like:Holy...
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Strawberries for sale

October 17, 2012
For some reason, this display at a San Francisco farmers' market reminded me of the markets in Italy, and that made me count back to how long it's been since I last...
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Given enough rope

October 17, 2012
criminals will hang themselvesunion repalanbehavior is...
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People: the same and different

October 17, 2012
The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might apear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a...
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About beginnings

October 16, 2012
Beginnings could happen more than once, or in different ways.  You could think you were starting something afresh,  when actually what you were doing was...
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The guilty pleasure of RHONJ

October 15, 2012
It's like watching a train wreck called the Real Housewives of New Jersey, but I just can't look away. I can make excuses like I'm also of Sicilian descent, this is all...
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Autumn, Greenland & political "science"

October 15, 2012
School parking lot, Sunnyvale, CA in August 2012 I took this photo the last week of August--can you see the leaves already changing color at the left side of the...
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The comfort of a voice

October 14, 2012
Have you ever worked with a therapist?I did, for many years, maybe the smartest thing I ever did.She wasn't the first I'd ever seen, either. Finding a good therapist is...
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Plump heirlooms

October 14, 2012
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Guest room insomniac

October 14, 2012
M sleeps like a log, like a rock. Still and quiet and long.Me? Not so much. I often wake in the wee hours and can't get back to sleep.And I hate to disturb him by...
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