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Meet Clare From the Nutcracker
2025-01-15 02:00 UTC by Corey

Olivia loves to pretend she’s Clara from The Nutcracker. Her favorite part of the ballet? Surprisingly, it’s not the Sugar Plum Fairies but the battle scene with the « mousies. » She especially loves the moment when Clara throws her slipper at the multi-headed Mouse King to save her Nutcracker.

Each morning, Olivia barely has her...

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Gâteau des Rois, King’s Cake
2025-01-14 02:00 UTC by Corey


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The Gâteau des Rois – King’s Cake.

Recipe:

4 cups of grounded almonds and/or hazelnuts, or a mixture of both,
2 cups of sugar,

Some melted butter to make the almond mixture thick yet creamy.

A drop or two of Grand Mariner,

An egg,

Some milk,
Mix until smooth; try not to eat it raw,
Then place the almond mixture...

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Review From a Guest of the Tiny House
2025-01-13 02:00 UTC by Corey

The British author Peter Mayle best describes me; I am not a scholar. Instead, I am a dreamer, one who crowds a collage of perfectionistic photos and then places them (complete with fragrance and aroma) percolating and illustrated ‘on location’ in my fixated fantasy land, recently Provence.

The Tiny House in Provence Corey Amaro
The Tiny House in Provence Corey Amaro

MP and I dove into the deep end;...

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Weekly Top Posts: 2025-01-12
2025-01-12 05:00 UTC

  1. The Antique Calendar –
  2. Annie’s Stuffed Cabbage Revisited
  3. My Visit to the Restored Notre Dame
  4. Deconstructed Vegetarian Cabbage Rolls
  5. 37 Years and not too many photos to show it.

How Poetry Tells the Truth
2025-01-11 22:05 UTC by Corey

Recently, my friend Arnelle shared this haiku

and it has stayed with me:

“Barn’s burnt down,

now

I can see the moon.”

— Mizuta Masahide (17th-century Japanese poet and samurai).

The haiku awakens me to a deeper, more critical, and even cynical perspective on the world. It sparks a shift in how I see societal...

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Nutty Buddies a Healthy Snack
2025-01-10 02:00 UTC by Corey

Like usual, when I step into the kitchen, there’s no plan. No list, no recipe. When I go to the grocery store, I don’t have anything specific in mind—I just buy what catches my eye, what feels right for the day. It works. I prepare everything at home; we rarely eat out. It’s not that we never do, but for the most part, meals happen at...

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37 Years and not too many photos to show it.
2025-01-09 02:00 UTC by Corey

37 years it’s a long time. You would think I’d have a photo to share of the two of us-

Instead I tend to take photos of just him.

I married him because I knew he would be a good father. When I met him he was an au pair in San Francisco. And how he was with the three little boys he cared for – just sealed the deal.

He is...

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