It was a dark day in September for Darlene Jensen. She was finally sitting down with her morning coffee and enjoying a browse through her Facebook feed when she heard a knock at the door. “I thought it was one of my children forgetting something. My eldest, Jeff, often does what he calls an......
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I’m sick of hearing it. “Fall is my favourite.” “I love the cool nights and mornings.” “Fall is the best.” First–you are all wrong. Summer is the best because it is warm and you can justify ice cream every day and you don’t have to take vitamin D supplements to stop from crying. Here......
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20 Year-Round Starbucks Seasonal Cups That Didn’t Stack Up
Lists, Shit that happens
September 05, 2019
The PSL or pumpkin spiced latte (which is not actually spiced like a pumpkin but more like a pumpkin pie, which is infinitely more delicious, but who’s being that particular?) is back at Starbucks with a reminder that fall is here. What you may not know is that after fall comes the dreaded holiday......
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This week’s prompt… Getting Lost. You have 15 minutes–go! Getting lost can sometimes be a wonderful thing, sometimes less than wonderful. This day it was a great day to get lost. We were in the city of canals, Venice Italy. Our family had been travelling for five weeks or more when we got there......
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It started as a lark. One day when our daughter was frustrating me, I downloaded an app that told me how many days there were left until she left for university. Now the app is a reminder that she is leaving and it is no longer funny. One of the reasons I married my......
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