Hello my friends. ย Happy Sunday! ย I hope your coffee is extra hot and exactly sweet, and I hope you’ve found just a few moments of aaaahhhhhh.
I’ve had family with me in New Orleans this week and it’s been so nice to make an unfamiliar place feel exactly like home with just a mega-ton of family. ย We’ve done ALL THE THINGS thanks to my well constructed itinerary, menu-planning, and desire to eat and see ALL THE THINGS. ย Yes… that’s me patting myself on the back. ย We visited theย Oak Alley Plantation mostly because I wanted to stand in this exact spot and absorb the shade of 300 year old trees. ย That’s a thing!
I made the Internet smaller for us. ย Here it go:
โข ย We advance our circumstance in so many ways. ย We have amazing freedoms. ย We have Twitter and Instagram. ย We have the world at our fingertips. ย Yet… Reaction to Ferguson Decision Shows Racial Divide Remains Over Views Of Justice.
โข ย A Broken Arch For Ferguson.
โข ย This seems like an important point ย to figure out sooner rather than later: ย Do Online Death Threats Count As Free Speech?
โข ย Aw man. ย Heavy sigh. ย Flying Coach Is The New Hell: ย How Airlines Engineer You Out Of Room.
โข ย America’s Longest-Serving Prisoner In Solitary Has Conviction Quashed.
โข ย Why Your Family Drives You Crazy. ย Because theyย push your buttons… and they invented the damn buttons.
โข ย We mustn’t stop feeding our Serial addiction. ย Five Chilling Tales for the Criminally Inclined. ย I might sign up for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
โข ย Leftovers solved:ย Mashed Potato, Cheddar and Chive Waffles.
โข ย This date night cookbook seems like a really sweet holiday gift: ย Date Night In: More than 120 recipes to nourish your relationship.
โข ย I’ve never wanted to knit anything until exactly right now. ย I canย create something this lush and fluffy with a big wooden stick!?!? ย Sign me all-the-way UP: ย Knitting Noodle. ย
โข ย Can all of the gifts I give this holiday season be monogrammed? I hope so. ย Monogrammed Sunshine Satchel.
โข ย Quite clever Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics.
โข ย I love this Foiled Cable Pullover Sweater. ย The sheen makes it feel just slightly holiday, right!?
โข Aloha has a new protein powder that I really really like! ย I mention this because I’ve eaten nothing but Thanksgiving leftovers, chili cheese fries, and doughnuts for the past few days. ย Cry for help!
I love you. ย You are tremendous.
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Oak Alley is amazing! Loving all your honesty and hope you had a ball with your family!
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is such a page turner and one of my favorites (the movie less so). I definitely recommend it, especially since I can attest to the fact that the city is as strange a place as seems. Love from Savannah!
Hey Joy, I just wanted to say that I adore your blog and it is easily a highlight of every day I read it. You RAHK and keep up the great work. Please podcast again soon. Thanks for real!
Love and bourbon,
Rachel
Love your links… from the seriously important, to the seriously silly. Thanks for always sharing your perspective.
PS: I made your brown butter choc chip cookies for Thanksgiving… freaking awesome. Obsessed.
My family is switching things up this year and we are giving and receiving gifts as couples, so I’m adding the date night cook book to my shopping list. :) Thanks!
I am with you on the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, I really want to read the book after watching John Cusack in the movie version, and Savannah is somewhat similar to New Orleans I think, so perfect read for you! I highly recommend In Cold Blood, the book is beautifully written, very intriguing, and just keeps you on your seat the entire time! I rate it higher than the movie, although I still really enjoyed the movie!
Those trees are breathtaking! I want to go there! There is something magical about old trees.
the south has infiltrated your brain. how can i tell? the interest in monogramming :)
Great links! LOVE the knitting – it’s so awesome!
Made the waffles for the day after Thanksgiving crowd and they were a huge hit with leftover turkey/gravy a la “chicken and waffles”
I flew coach on Friday for 5 hours. I was in a middle seat. It was awful. The end.
https://www.youtube.com/sparklesandsuch26
Did you take them on a swamp boat tour? Really fun and interesting, as is the WWII Museum. I love NOLA.
Joy,
thank you for you…..I read your words, every week and love your “let it be Sunday” and it challenges me and enlightens me, and I share with my husband and it has inspired some wonderful talks. Keep being you and making food and communicating, love, diversity and humanity.
Teresa
O.K. now you have my attention ALOHA CHOCOLATE isn’t it pitiful all the wonderful stuff you put up there and I lost all focus on all the articles when I spotted the chocolate. Oh, well have a great Sunday. Paulette
I’m incredible sad to learn that race STILL plays such a big role in your justice system. That the color of your skin is even an issue.
Wonder what it will take to shift the emphasis from color to human being? Clearly that goal is not just around the corner.
Love, Lene
Your links are fantastic! I really click on most! I hope to do that as well :) MissCityDiscovers.com
How wonderful you had such a great time with your family. And I knitted a lot in the past – it’s fun and makes one satisfy :)
Lovely greetings from Bavaria, Rena http://www.dressedwithsoul.com