Body and Home: health without obsession, food worth cooking, and a home worth coming back to.
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How to Declutter Without It Becoming a Personality
There’s an anvil in my nana’s old shed that isn’t going anywhere. It’s too heavy to move, and by the sound of it, always has been. It was there since she and pop moved in (my pop was a metal worker in his earlier years), and it’ll probably be there after whoever buys the house…
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Why I Started Gardening (And What It Taught Me About Everything Else)
If you’d asked me why I started gardening, I’m not sure I could have given you a clean answer. But it probably starts here — a section of our yard growing up that we called the fernery. One side of the house, shaded by tall rainforest-style trees, where the light came through in layers and…
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Cooking Simply and Well — What I’ve Learned After Years of Average Meals
There was a cooking class in my first year of high school that I’ve never quite forgotten and has set me on my path of cooking simply at home. It was mandatory for a term — the kind of subject nobody asked for and most people treated as a free period with an oven. But…