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Carimañolas are a traditional Panamanian food. They’re a deep fried meat filled yucca roll that we used to eat from time to time when I was a kid. We, of course, never deep fried them because my mom is a health food stickler. Last week my friend, Olinda, taught the kids and me how to…
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It just makes my day when a company takes responsibility for errors, even when, actually *especially when*, the error isn’t their responsibility. Mid February, I was with my husband and kids at the Albuquerque Sunport, waiting to get on a flight to Costa Rica, connecting through Atlanta. We had to wake up super early to…
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I’ve lived in the US so long that I’d completely forgotten about this wonderful green piece of heaven, the chayote. We found it at a local market in San Jose, Costa Rica, and my brain instantly recalled delicious soups and stews. When sliced it looks a little like an apple and the kids looked a…
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Once they’ve been employees of Automattic for five years, everyone is eligible for a two—to three-month sabbatical. On February 6th, I reached this milestone, and on the 7th, I took off for three glorious months of travel and relaxation. Ever since this employee benefit was announced, I’ve been planning what I would do on my…
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I went to Vegas for work. Yup. Vegas. That place where people go to gamble and party and all that? I even managed to sort of very vaguely learn how a person might play craps should they be inclined to do such things. Which I am not, but it was fun to watch the gambling skills…
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This year has meant a lot of travel for my family. Without really meaning to, we made a theme out of visiting every National Park we found near our travel path. At each visiters center we bought a sticker for me to put on my laptop. After the top got covered up I moved…
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Not this much, but good try chocolate maker. A little less heresy going on here, or at least heresy I could get behind. 😉 Just kidding, I don’t actually like chocolate that much. 😀
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I am a list maker. But I am also a list avoider, I think this is also sometimes called being a procrastinator. And I am inconsistent about my organizational strategies. But I have a job where it rather helps to be on top of things. So I recently made a resolution to be very very consistent…
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If you know me at all, you know I love the 12 days of Christmas and you can guess my house is still in full Christmas swing. To keep the holiday music fresh and new (we’ve been listening to a lot of Mannheim Steamroller and Trans Siberian Orchestra), I was digging around for my copy…
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the…
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Karen Alma 