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Guessing Game

Posted on September 20, 2012 by deairby

Do you play the “story game?” You know, when you are with someone in a public place and you are “people watching.” You try to guess the current scene of the life story you are witnessing. Mystery abounds. Are they really who … Continue reading →

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Project Runway? Hunger Games?

Posted on March 23, 2012 by deairby

Was it a dream? Was I chosen to participate on Project Runway? Oh, wait, no, that was my 13 year-old daughter who designed, sketched and requested a Hunger Games costume for the midnight premier showing. I hadn’t read the books … Continue reading →

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Necessary Roughness

Posted on March 20, 2012 by deairby

Necessary Roughness is a television show that promotes “tough love” by a counselor to professional athletes. In this case, art does not seem to imitate life. I am amazed at how many people (parents, coaches, teachers, etc) are afraid of … Continue reading →

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Put on Your Big Girl Panties

Posted on March 18, 2012 by deairby

Growing old is a pain (pun intended), growing up is sometimes harder, and not growing up is the worst. When do you know that you are all grown up? Do we ever really make it to maturity? One of the … Continue reading →

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Don’t Assume It’s a Telemarketer

Posted on March 10, 2012 by deairby

During my years at The Baron York Tea Room, because it was housed in the historic building where the Standard Telephone first brought the modern invention to the North Georgia mountains, I used a replica of an old dial phone. … Continue reading →

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If The Shoe Fits…..Run!!!!

Posted on March 9, 2012 by deairby

Every time I drive home from Atlanta I see this giant high heel on the side of the road! Do you see it? Right, it isn’t a shoe, but it looks like a lost high heel left on the side … Continue reading →

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Braised Babbage?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by deairby

I have decided that birthing my eight children was a piece of cake next to “birthing” a cookbook. Stress and frustration literally brought me to tears sometimes. I paid an editor to proof before the first run, then another person … Continue reading →

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Ah, visions of homeschool

Posted on March 5, 2012 by deairby

One of the benefits of homeschooling is allowing my daughter freedom to work on her interests. Now, with the violin, the benefit will come later, AFTER she masters a few songs not necessarily WHILE she is learning her songs. We … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name….Change….?

Posted on March 3, 2012 by deairby

The name of my cookbook is A Dollop and A Pinch because it has little bits of so many different things. This blog has been known as The Baron York, which was the name of the tea room and gift shop … Continue reading →

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The long road home and back again

Posted on March 2, 2012 by deairby

After four days, my car was ready to be home home. A day of driving west to my birth home for a book signing, two days of events and meetings, and finally a day driving back east to my current … Continue reading →

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