Surviving the holidays when you’re burdened with grief or depression

The past two Christmas seasons have been the hardest I’ve lived through. Yet they’ve been the ones most saturated with hope, peace, and joy. Probably not the hope, peace, and joy we all think of first when we hear those nouns that, if a word could be a commercial, would be full of perfect smiles

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Glorious real butter (and why it took me so long to learn how to make it)

Even though we’ve owned a cow for three years, I’ve just now gotten to a point where I feel like a butter expert. I figured it’s time I tell y’all how to make this amazingness… and the buttermilk… and the buttermilk French toast that results from making butter… because it’s ALL crazy good. And if

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