Category: Life
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The author reflects on their journey as a football fan, from growing up in a St. Louis family supporting the Cardinals to experiencing the Rams’ departure and ultimately embracing the Chiefs. The narrative captures cherished memories with family and the sense of community found in new experiences, emphasizing gratitude for evolving fandom.
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On July 15th, 1997 Beth Nielsen Chapman released the album Sand and Water. It was her fourth release, and up until that time, she had some moderate success as a singer-songwriter, having written songs for Bonnie Raitt, Faith Hill, Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Michael McDonald, Emmylou Harris, and the Indigo Girls. When…
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My initial exposure to the band Rush was my first day of high school. I spotted a cassette under the desk of a fellow classmate in Freshman English. I was impressed that someone would think either so little of English class or so much of their taste in music to bring a cassette tape to…
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On June 12, 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark was released by Paramount pictures and went on to become one of the greatest movies of the 80’s–possibly one of the greatest action-adventure movies of all time. I was 9 years old. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, it was propelled by two of…
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“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” -Leonard Bernstein When I was a kid, my mom listened to A LOT of Barbara Streisand. She had a very large collection of Streisand music on 8-track, album, and cassette. Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s during the height of Babs’ power, I experienced Disco…
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When I was young, my dad would pick me up from my grandma’s house after school, and he was in charge of dinner. He had no idea what he was doing. When pressed for time due to baseball practice or a piano lesson (baseball didn’t stick, but piano did), dinner consisted of either microwaved Chef…
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Back in 1992, a book was published called The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman. At the time it came out, the Five Love Language theory was all the rage as people raced to figure out how best to communicate love to one another in a way that would be most readily received through…
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I’m a big fan of salami. I’ve never done a deep dive into how salami is made. Which is likely why I’m a big fan of salami. When I was a kid, the go-to was the hard salami sandwich with yellow mustard on plain white bread. Not toasted, not melted, nothing. Also, it had to…
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Welcome to Cookie’s Kitchen, a blog dedicated to the memory of and inspired by my mom. All of the closest people in my mom’s life knew her as Cookie, and most of what I learned about life and food, I learned in Cookie’s Kitchen. My mom instilled in me many valuable things over the years,…