Easy Brown Butter Banana Bread with Cinnamon Crumble Topping
This is a recipe of circumstance. I had three overripe bananas on the counter that I didn’t want to toss or add to the freezer collection. Enter: Brown Butter Banana Bread with Cinnamon Crumble Topping, a blend of several existing recipes. Keep in mind, I’m just a homebaker puttering around the kitchen. I am sure…
Exploring Time Travel in ‘The Ministry of Time’
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In 1845, a Victorian Arctic explorer by the name of Graham Gore, along with 128 men under the command of Sir John Franklin, set out on what history would call the Franklin Expedition: two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, in search of the Northwest Passage. Their ships…
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College Planning for Parents
Nico is locked inside an unfamiliar high school, taking the ACT cold for five to six hours, so this is as good a time as any for me to share the college planning spreadsheet he teased me about on Instagram a while back. I occasionally get questions about applying to colleges and doing it in…
Happy, Happy
This is Morris. I don’t know who he belongs to. I was walking last night when I saw him resting with his back to a planter, looking like he ruled the world, as cats often do. Normally the cats in my neighborhood skedaddle when they see a stranger coming, but not Morris. He just stared…
ROOM
I over-think everything, including home security.
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365: Body, Mind, Spirit | Week 12
I married a “still waters” guy.
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My name is Jules. I love to read and do homey things. This is my blog about embracing the imperfect, living with less, and developing a more sustainable, intentional lifestyle. I am mostly sweet, occasionally salty.