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Friday Flotsam

spring flowers / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrroodoo. WEEK TWO. We’ve been home for two weeks. (sans two grocery store runs dressed in hazmat suits.) And you know, I think I’m starting to adjust. Everywhere I look lately I read the words “new normal” – and that’s just it. It’s a new normal, and in that there’s this odd sense of peace […]

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tulip trees / bev cooks

Friiiiiiii…..day. Wow, what a week. Between school closures (for the rest of the year, omg), restaurants reduced to curbside only, and the news becoming grimmer and grimmer by the hour, the whole world just bottomed out, didn’t it? You know this already, I’m not here to magnify the negative. But I DID want to check […]

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daffodil in the front yard

Fri….day. Hey. Well, it’s just impossible for me to sit here at my laptop on this eerie Friday morning and pretend to churn out goofy stories about ankle socks or nose hair clippers when the whole world is being flipped upside down like it is. It just feels fake and inappropriate today. I’ve been purposely […]

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purple flowers / bev cooks

FRRRRREWERWERWERWRERday. Can we talk about guilty pleasures? Guys, I don’t think I have any! Is this sad? Reason I ask is, the other day my friend Trisha texted me about some song she loves and how it was a guilty pleasure, and I said to her, “But wait, why is it a guilty pleasure? I […]

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vine in the winter / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRRRerherderpermerder! So this is the kind of stuff I think about. You’re like, here we go. Have you ever noticed how any business offices you call – no matter if it’s the doctor’s office, home improvement store, toenail repair shop – EVERYONE’S MENU HAS CHANGED? “Please listen carefully, as our menu has changed.” Why did […]

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convivial plates / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRReh. Frih. Deh. Okay, I need your help! (you’re like, girl I just woke up.) I WANT to say we’ve talked about this before, many ancient moons of blogging yesterlore ago. But let’s bring it back because I need a fresh coat on it. No pun intended. Once you know what we’re talking about. I […]

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pink and white flowers / bev cooks

Fralemtime’s Fray! (just kidding don’t delete me from your life.) OKAY. (you’re like, oh no.) I want to ask you something serious, and I need to you mentally and emotionally prepare yourself for it. It’s a big ask. Your answer will violently stir and rumble your soul in a way you didn’t think possible. Here […]

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new york building / bev cooks

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFrooloobooboo. Who came up with “selling like hotcakes?” And what exactly are hotcakes? Are we talking about pancakes here? Like a pancake breakfast? Like a Saturday morning pancake breakfast at the high school gym? I realize I could look this up, but you’re cuter. Well I’ve got some thoughts on this. (shocker, I know.) Why […]

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snow kids / bev cooks

FRRRRRRRRRRRRi d a e i y e e h a. ! . Who even WROTE The Happy Birthday song? I guess I could look this up, but I prefer to be annoyed and not. This is the thing. That’s a hard song to sing. And who has the loaded responsibility of delivering and/or performing this […]

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fades roses

FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRer her hoo hah. You know how we pronounce pajamas two different ways? And by we I mean, probably just Americans. I think. So like, pajamas. The jam being pronounced like jam. Like grape jam. Or a Grateful Dead jam sesh. Or those bad-to-the-bone culottes we wore in the ’80s with the neon shapes splashed […]

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