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  • Creative Process

    Q: your creative process – how you get inspired, do you make steadily or in furious spurts? A: I am a fundamentally creative person- I think most of us are. We express that creativity in different ways, and with different things, but a way to get out of our own heads and talk about things, […]

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  • tuna noodle casserole

    When my partner and I first got married, he made me this. I looked at it with the scorn of “what in the caucasity SIR”, ate it, and fell in love with the humble casserole. This makes a lot or a little, is comforting as fuck, and super reheatable from both the fridge and freezer, […]

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  • How to show up for a friend that is grieving

    I’m sorry that you/your friend/family/human is going through this. Grief is a universal experience, but not one that we’re trained to talk about (in the US, that is). I was watching the movie Coco with my partner right when it came out, and he reacted super strongly: “why didn’t we learn about death like this?”. […]

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  • Mortgage part 1: What is it?

    A mortgage is a specific type of loan that is tied to Real Estate or property. In essence, it is an agreement between you (the borrower) and a financial institution (holder of the mortgage) to jointly buy a property together- you pay back the rest of the cost of the property over time, and the […]

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