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  I love all Christmas cookies: peanut butter blossoms, Russian teacakes, gingersnaps, spritz, cranberry oatmeal cookies. My favorite, however, are frosted sugar cookies. Not the Martha Stewart version with shimmering sprinkles and flawless icing, but the homely ones. The misshapen ones that look like they were frosted with a spackle knife. The ones you see […]

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When you rent, you work with what you have—worn carpeting, tiny kitchens, walls you can’t knock down. I tend to overlook most of my apartment’s cosmetic frustrations because it’s a trade-off. I can’t replace the carpet, yet it also snowed 4 inches last night and I don’t have to shovel even a spoonful of it. […]

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