November 2nd, 2014, the second day of NaNoWriMo, I started writing. I'd done NaNo every year since my Freshman year of high school (2008), but I'd never made writing a daily habit. It was time. It was NaNo and I was in high spirits, so I decided that I was going to write at least 1,667 words a day, every day during NaNo....

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I was weirdly excited to write this review, just because I haven’t found many in-depth reviews on ocarina stuff in general, but this curriculum in particular. I may have gone a bit overboard. Be warned that this will probably be one of the longest, most nit-picky reviews you will ever read, and some of the things I nit-pick, I don't even care about....

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Some of you may remember the whole wheat oil-free vegan bread machine bread recipe that I adapted from a Hitachi bread machine recipe found in The New McDougall Cookbook. I totally thought I had it perfected, but I've done further experimentation and the new version rises higher and has a slightly better structure, so I thought I'd post an update with new pictures. I took my...

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Our need for fresh  bread always seems to sneak up on me. Sometimes I bake a couple of loaves and think "This should be enough for the rest of the week," and then my husband starts eating it for snacks and I run out and have to make some on Thursday or else I won't have anything to send in his lunches on...

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