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How I Spent a Summer Giving Squirrels Rides to the Park The first house we bought was a 1930s fixer-upper with two enormous walnut trees in the backyard. They were beautiful trees. Slightly overgrown, but beautiful, and they shaded nearly the entire yard. It made the entire back yard just a little bit nicer. With…
I was eating pizza the other day at Fazzari’s Finest, a local place in Clarkston. The Fazzari family has been running it for years. Super kind people. They can make a mean pizza pie.My pie I order? Large cheese with extra cheese and extra sauce. Tomatoes on the side. I had that thought. Pizza isn’t…
Hello, Somewhere along the way, I got a little more organized. The website got fancier, the emails got more polished, and I realized I had skipped something pretty basic: I never properly thanked the people who were already here. So this is me fixing that. First off, no one wants a dozen emails a day, so…
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