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Spiked Coffee Cake with Bailey’s Irish Cream

Spiked Coffee Cake with Bailey's Irish Cream
Spiked Coffee Cake with Bailey’s Irish Cream

OKAY I HAVE A THEORY. We’ve been speaking to one another face to face for years. Long enough for social evolution to teach us to wait a hot minute before opening our mouths. We teach this to our children as they develop self-control: you probably shouldn’t say everything you think.

Sometimes we think things that aren’t true — or that we aren’t sure are true. Sometimes we think things that are true, but aren’t helpful or necessary (“I told you so,” anyone?). Sometimes we think things that aren’t kind. When we’re little, we might blurt all of these things out. But as we grow, we learn to be better at communicating effectively.

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Hot Buttered Rum Cake (and I Changed My Mind Story #3)

Hot Buttered Rum Cake
Hot Buttered Rum Cake

This is the second story in the I Changed My Mind series, where I’m sharing stories of times I changed my mind about significant beliefs in order to model vulnerability and nuance, something I think is lacking in our public discourse right now. Hop back to the series introduction to read about what inspired this collection! Or read I Changed My Mind Story #1 and I Changed My Mind Story #2.

I hope you’ll join me in the comments to share stories of when you changed your mind. As a reminder, this is a series to prompt one another to be vulnerable, be sincere, and listen — not to argue or debate. So, when have you changed your mind?
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Spiced Orange and Pear Compote

Spiced Orange and Pear Compote
Spiced Orange and Pear Compote

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Or set intention words or whatever the current thing is? There’s this weird push and pull about things like this: a group shares resolutions and another group sneers at the idea of resolutions and then another group sneers at sneering at resolutions and then…you get the idea.

I even think there’s a group who sneers at the push-pull. Personally I’d like to take a break from the sneering.

Anyway, I made a resolution this year because it served me. My resolution is to
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Brown Butter Pumpkin Rum Cake

Brown Butter Pumpkin Rum Cake
Brown Butter Pumpkin Rum Cake

This post is a present for you: a piece of one of the best cakes I’ve ever made (have you noticed I’m remaking it in 800 variations? That’s always a sign it’s good) and a reminder of things our kindergarten teachers tried their best to teach us. Bless their hearts, they didn’t know how we would be tested. Some of us have failed. But we can always get back on track.

Here are 6 reminders of things we learned in kindergarten:

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