I did it!

Holy crap– for the first time ever I actually completed National Blog Posting Month successfully! It’s a miracle. Perhaps I should wait until tomorrow to celebrate, but who are we kidding– after 30 days straight, you know I won’t be posting tomorrow . It wasn’t as difficult as I anticipated once I got used to [...]

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International goodies

Yesterday J and I went with some friends to the annual Christmas bazaar held by the International Women’s Club of Tallinn. I wrote about it two years ago when it happened to fall on a day with extremely windy and snowy weather, and when the Estonian community abroad found that post and circulated it this [...]

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Our own little Thanksgiving dinner

Even though I live in Estonia and Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated here, I’m still an American at heart and didn’t want to let the holiday go by without some kind of recognition. So, in addition to calling my family and getting to chat with everyone while they prepared for their holiday feast on Thursday, I also [...]

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The Chocolate Chip Cookie Project: Part XIII

Subject #13: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls This recipe has been all the rage on food blogs over the past few weeks. There’s a woman in California called Annie the Baker who makes and sells fat little cookies that remain soft and dough-like in the center even after being baked. A cookie with the texture [...]

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Friday night

Friday nights are not good posting nights for me! It seems like at the end of the week my brain refuses to produce anything creative. It’s been a good night– we went to see a movie as part of the annual Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, after which we went for a run in [...]

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