So kudos to Leah for keeping blog alive. Which begs the question, “What has Jeff been up to?” Well I’ve been up to a lot, though most recently I was traveling in Alaska. My mom is from AK, and back in the winter my grandmother passed away. It was a sad event, and one lacking …
One of the highlights of Leah and I’s recent trip to Oregon was the tour we took of the Tillamook Creamery in Tillamook, OR. This is the factory where the Tillamook County Creamery Association makes a lot of their cheese. Growing up in the area, we always just called the association “Tillamook Cheese,” and the …
Leah and I just got back from the Oregon coast. So hopefully this explains why the ole’ blog hasn’t had too many updates recently. Also, it looks like we’ll be moving soon (more on that in the coming weeks!), though we’ll be staying in the same general area. So why the Oregon coast, and especially …
Continue reading Back from Spring Break on the Oregon Coast!
OK, so this post's title is tongue-and-cheek. 'Cause this a blog about COOKING and WRITING, though Leah and I did have a pretty fun time in Minneapolis last week. So here’s a few more pictures from the trip, and explanations that go with them. Again, the highlight of our short vacation was definitely the frozen …
Continue reading In Defense of Cold Vacations: Because They Give You Material for a Lifestyle Blog
Leah and I have been MIA for a bit because we went to Minneapolis. A question we got a lot while planning, going, gone, and after returning was, “Why?” I think this was mostly with the implied addition of, “Since it is so cold there.” Thus, what got into us? Well, the short and best …
Continue reading In Defense of Cold Vacations: Because You can Hike Frozen Waterfalls
A week after being trapped in the mountains by snow and Leah and I are finally caught up (can you tell—not a lot of blog posts last week, right?). So more things about writing and books and food to come, but what did we do when stuck in a cabin? Well, we slept a lot. …
Leah and I traveled to the mountains outside of Boone, NC for the weekend. We thought we’d get a blog post up on Sunday, after getting back, or on Monday… but we ended up getting snowed in. We were trapped in our cabin—with plenty of food, games, and the internet, i.e. the essentials—so it was …
For Thanksgiving Leah and I drove to Washington D.C., which afforded us the opportunity to visit West Virginia. West Virginia isn’t quite on the way… but it isn’t out of the way, either. Also, my parents, sister, and I are in a big competition to see who can visit all fifty states first, and I …
On Friday our friend at Everyday Strange featured a guest post that I wrote. You can read it here. I wrote about when I traveled to Germany last year, which occurred right between finishing graduate school and moving to North Carolina. I went with my best friend from high school, and we visited a foreign …
One of the highlights of visiting my sister in Denver was Leah and I got to see where she works. Librarians do a number of things, and part of a library science program can be working with book storage. My sister was lucky enough to get a job at an archive, retrieving old books and …
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