My ancestry is drawn mainly from several strands of German and Dutch folk. My grandparents were born VanHaaften, Miller (originally Mueller), Johnson and Datwyler, respectively. What those complicated collaborations of vowels and harsh consonants don’t reveal is that we also have a great deal of monster blood coursing through our veins.
This is my great great [...]

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Perhaps the best part of working from home is the lunches. It’s not like I have the luxury of cooking full-fledged, gourmet eats every day of the week because there’s a lot to be done and the little one gets impatient with the whole chopping-stirring-plating process.
However, I don’t have to eat tuna fish and carrot [...]

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