I love the summertime for all its produce and freshness, but the same old salad can get a bit boring. My sister was feeling the solstice ennui when she sent me an email asking for some inspiration! Here is my approach to making the most of summertime veg all the days long... If it grows …
Month: July 2018
Why a single story view of the world is not as simple as you may think
This morning a friend shared a TED video with me. It is a talk from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about the dangers of a single story. The stereotyping of a culture or society based on a single point of view set by someone else, for example, the entertainment or media industries or a single interaction with …
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Every birthday is a milestone a birthday
My grandma couldn’t cook. She was a professional musician her entire adult life and spent a fair amount of time either traveling or at work during the dinner hours. She could, however, make a box-mix cake! Whenever we saw her(which wasn’t often because she lived at least a day’s drive away), she would make a …
Top 10 quirky facts that you don’t know about Cardiff (or, at least, I didn’t!)
Wales is a country filled with diversity from the forests of the north country to the surf of the south. Cardiff embodies this diversity and has the weird and wonderful facts to prove it! Cardiff was founded by the Romans in 55AD but was a town of only 2,000 people in 1800. By 1900, the …
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