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Ashley commented on the post, manners 9 months, 1 week ago
I’ve been taught all my life that manners are important, so I have always tried to make manners a habit. That is pretty difficult however when you stay at another person’s house often where manners aren’t a big […]
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Ashley wrote about the word bland 1 year, 4 months ago
My tongue clicked as I tasted the bland sauce for the third time. “Needs more… salt. Actually, needs more flavor in general.” My sous chef (my mom) gave me a mean look, “this recipe’s been in the family for decades and here you are trying to get fancy and tweak it.”
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Ashley S wrote about the word savage 1 year, 4 months ago
The weather was cold that winter, with savage winds licking at my coat every time I left the house. I’d been so stressed that winter that I hadn’t even realized the cold, but it just made everything that much worse.
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Ashley S wrote about the word lillies 1 year, 4 months ago
Every summer when we drove down to Portland we’d drive past fields of lillies, a burst of color in the otherwise monotone landscape. Sometimes we’d take a break and eat lunch in the field, but most of the time we just drove past and I would gaze at them with a sense of wonder, not [...]
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