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What Happens in the Kitchen: A Holiday Confession

We humans like ‘perfect’—perfect hair, perfect weather, perfect kids, perfect WiFi, perfect cheese plates… According to one website, the perfect cheese plate must have the following: Homemade wheat…

joyclevelandDecember 20, 2020

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The WAIT Button

In my corner of the world, I’m looking at brightly-colored leaves that are hanging onto branches for dear life. Many of their cohorts have floated…

joyclevelandOctober 23, 2020

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BLOG Paused for TRASH PICK-UP

Can we 'talk trash' for a minute? Years ago I lived in a community that only allowed one 33-gallon bag of garbage per week. (I…

joyclevelandAugust 3, 2020

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The HELP Button

A few weeks ago, I was mowing. In Iowa, mowing is a fact of life. We were months into the spring season and rain and…

joyclevelandJune 24, 2020

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The ESCAPE Button

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just push an ESCAPE button? That’s how I felt on a particular evening in 1998. My kids were…

joyclevelandMay 8, 2020

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What Happens in the Kitchen: A Holiday Confession

The WAIT Button

BLOG Paused for TRASH PICK-UP

The HELP Button

The ESCAPE Button

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