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Knowing What Not to Add
If you Google “make gyros at home,” you’ll find rosemary and thyme everywhere.Not because they belong there — but because one recipe said it once, and everyone else repeated it. It’s the same with vinegar. I understand the acid logic.But vinegar isn’t lemon.And Greek yogurt on its own isn’t the same as yogurt mixed with…
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Florida’s in a Mood
I Checked Today’s Forecast… and Florida is in a MOOD. Every morning I check the forecast to see whether I’ll need my Florida survival skills or if I can just go about my day like a normal person. Today’s report? “Mostly cloudy and windy… with small hail.” Small hail. At 82 degrees. Only Florida can…
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Welcome to the good stuff. Stories, side‑eyes, and survivor humor inside.
(Innocence + Absurdity + Silent Hierarchy I figured we’d kick things off with a holiday that everyone pretends is about romance… but every kid knows the truth. Valentine’s Day – wasn’t candlelight and roses — it was construction paper, sugar highs, and the social experiment known as The Classroom Valentine Exchange. It was a shoebox.…
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Where and what is Asia Minor and what’s up with the tagines?
Five Generations of Tavernaris/Manos women – An Anatolian History of over 146 years Why was half of my family born in Turkey – and yet we are Greek? The video below explains the history (trigger warning. Although there’s nothing too graphic in this video the very thought of a genocide is a horrific testament to…