“Hi, everyone! I had meant to continue this conversation with Shelby last week, but then a little tropical storm rolled through and cut off our power for a week so…yeah. Here we are! Without further delay, more with the one…
“The doors are open again and you are very welcome back to the circle at The Modern Bee. I’m super excited because today, Shelby Stone joins the circle and adds her incomparable voice to the conversation. I’ve looked up to…
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“She gave us a lot to think about on Monday and there’s more where that came from, Let’s jump right back into the conversation with Cat…” -Michaela March was very dramatic for you, to say the least. You decamped from…
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“You can always count on Cat to lace up to march for civil rights or hunker down for a marathon of bad reality TV. She’s very timely, which sounds like a weird adjective, but hear me out. In an era…
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It’s Friday! Lately, nothing has been making me feel more grounded than yoga class. Zoom and FaceTime are things I’ve stubbornly refused to engage in in these “closed” times. I’d rather talk on the old phone. So, I was out…
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Last night, my husband and I went to a small, outdoor concert at a historic museum near where we live. Circles were drawn on the expansive lawn for parties to sit in. If you left your circle, you were to…
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“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” President Bill Clinton Tomorrow is the 4th of July and what a time to be in America, to be an American. Despite everything going…
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To be honest, I didn’t think I could make good on a Monday post today. These past few days, I’ve been feeling crushed under the weight of the pandemic; the national sudden and complicated reckoning with issues of race and…
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You know when you have a million tabs open on your computer related to a million different things? That’s how my mind feels today. So this weekend, when thunderstorms are meant to rattle through our area, I’m going on an…
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I love hot dogs. Year round. I’m very particular about my buns and the dogs themselves, because I’m a purist: ketchup only. So I like to ensure that the quality of the two other parts of my hot dog are…
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Well, it’s officially summer! Didn’t it seem like we kind of skipped spring this year though? I remember still wearing my winter parka in early March and then after string after string of weeks in quarantine, looking out the window…
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Red velvet cake was a must growing up in my house. It was the cake of choice for graduations, birthdays, you name it. I just baked one. What are we celebrating? Juneteenth! Juneteenth has always been an important part of…
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A few years ago, I bonded with a 5-year-old boy. He’s a family friend, so I’d already adored him, but then I started working with him while I was in grad school. Christmas came along and he wanted to get…
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