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Today is a good day. Yesterday wasn’t such a good day, but at the end of days like that, you tell yourself that tomorrow will be a better day. And today is.

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I’ll admit it, I’ve gotten rusty. There was a point where I could almost do this in my sleep, but it’s probably been more than a decade since I roasted a chicken like this. But already that smell, that indescribable, heavenly odor, is filling the house. Also

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I thought I was clever by starting to work on dinner early, but I wasn’t clever enough by half. This monster is going to take almost two and a half hours to roast. And it took about a half hour to prep.

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I’d forgotten how much of prance Julia Child’s roast chicken is. It’s a workout, especially with today’s plus-sized birds.

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Gotta Do Something While the Hot Dogs Boil

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Somebody’s smoking, may be ribs? Whatever it is, the neighborhood smells wonderful this morning.

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I'm working on the front porch because the weather's so damn beautiful today, and I was just enraptured by this impossible moment where the tones of the wind chime blended perfectly with the beeping of a truck a block away, which illustrates how productive I'

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The thing I love about UPS My Choice is that once you sign up for it, you have absolutely no choice to turn off the fifteen hundred emails sent per package.

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Honestly, the next edition of Civilization that I'm really looking forward to would be the 54th. I can't wait to play Civ CIV.

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The bird made it home!

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I think I saw this bird when I was out walking last week. I'd never seen a white dove in the wild before, and I was looking all around for the magician.

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I am loving The Midnight Gospel on Netflix right now. I want all podcasts to do this.