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  • Special Post: Jacox Family Recipe Bulletin or How I Messed with the Ginger Jelly Cookie Recipe

    Dateline: December 5, 2013, 15:04 Central Time/ Minnesota I have, unwittingly, corrupted Grandma Ruby’s Ginger Jelly Cookie Recipe. Yes, I intended to cut them into tree shapes (!gasp!), but I did not intend to leave out a good portion of the ingredients. Lucky for me, Minnesota has been noted as one of the states now…

  • Asheville, North Carolina

    An amazing Thanksgiving is a memory and we soldier on… My nephew (via LA), his mom (who drove from Oak Ridge, TN) and my partner and I met in Asheville, NC for the long holiday weekend. Photos first…stories later :). Christine

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected (‘er maybe not)

    http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/photo-challenge-unexpected/

  • Hazel’s Northeast: Breakfast and the Rest!

    I met a friend for breakfast at Hazel’s Northeast in Minneapolis this morning. I have been missing out!! Greeted by co-owner Andrew and waited on by the incomparable Lindsay, we enjoyed a luscious breakfast on a busy Friday. The biscuits and gravy was sublime; eggs over-easy… done to perfection. Enjoy a few snap shots and…

  • Alzheimer’s

    On a cloudless August day, Richard W., 65, navigates his pontoon on the waters of Jennings Bay, Lake Minnetonka. Pulling a laminated map from beneath the pilot’s chair, he points out Dutch Lake, where he, and wife Carol, raised their two girls. Dick was definitively diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2009, but the couple, and…