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Maple Double Crumb Coffee Cake (and The Big List of Systemic Racism for White People)

Maple Double Crumb Coffee Cake
Maple Double Crumb Coffee Cake

I made you some cake! Do you notice that I tend toward breakfast foods when we chat about racism? Okay, and falafel. Same thing, really. Anyway, grab a cup of coffee and a slice of Maple Double Crumb Coffee Cake and get ready to get deep.

Often the only racism people recognize is explicit, individual racism, like someone using the n-word or joining the KKK. But racism can also be implicit, where we are biased without realizing it (click here for an implicit bias test developed by Harvard). And racism is also systemic. Systemic racism seems the least understood but arguably the most critical form of discrimination. So I wrote my best effort at Systemic Racism 101 for my fellow white people.

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Piña Colada Dump Cake

Piña Colada Dump Cake
Piña Colada Dump Cake

There’s nothing like moving to force you to LOOK AT ALL THE THINGS. You thought you were holding it together, keeping things organized, but in reality you were STUFFING ALL THE THINGS INTO A BLOATED “IMPORTANT ITEMS” FOLDER in the nether regions of your filing cabinet. Unopened letters from the insurance company because you Could Not Even at the time, manuals for appliances you haven’t owned in a decade, ticket stubs you thought you’d care about later (nope).

You want to just chuck the whole thing in the recycling bin, but of course that would be TOO EASY. Mixed into the detritus is the ORIGINAL COPY of your social security card, your fave recipe for stuffed squash, and faded receipts that the IRS might still inexplicably demand from you.

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4-Ingredient Blueberry Cobbler Dump Cake

4-Ingredient Blueberry Cobbler Dump Cake
4-Ingredient Blueberry Cobbler Dump Cake

A few days ago I wouldn’t have wanted to give you an update on our huge move. I struggled to find my place in Raleigh over the past three years and spent a lot of time pleading with God to open a door or turn me around or throw me a rope or . . . something. But year after year there were clear indications that I was in process right where I needed to be. Wait. Wait. Wait.

But then I found out the school of my dreams for the past decade had a graduate school, and then I got accepted into that graduate school. A graduate school that just so happened to be located in one of my favorite cities in the world. Every tiny door that hadn’t opened for me was suddenly forgotten as God opened a more amazing door than I’d imagined possible. Grateful, humbled, I committed to walking through that door. But then (fellow believers out there may know what comes next) the last couple of months have been one solid, scary trial.

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Ultimate Tres Leches Cookies and Cream Cake (and a giant announcement!)

Ultimate Tres Leches Cookies and Cream Cake
Ultimate Tres Leches Cookies and Cream Cake

This is one of those I’m-so-excited-that-I’m-also-kind-of-sick announcements. One of those I’m-going-on-a-big-adventure-and-might-be-crazy announcements. One of those I-haven’t-slept-in-two-months-because-I’m-terrified announcements. One of those I-need-to-finally-tell-you-or-I’ll-burst announcements.

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Hot Milk Toast Cake

Hot Milk Toast Cake
Hot Milk Toast Cake

I’ve done hot yoga now for ONE YEAR AND FOUR MONTHS (and I still can’t do crow pose but whatever) so obviously that whole thing worked out for me. But have you ever tried COLD yoga?

Spoiler alert: cold yoga isn’t really a thing. Or at least I don’t think it’s really a thing. Nevertheless, five of my students and I just did it.

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