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Quarantine Kitchen: Pan-seared gnocchi recipe

REFER NOTE:To see your favorite homecooked meal in the paper, or if you own a local restaurant and would like to participate, email your recipes, along with photos, to food@dominionpost.com or send them to us via Facebook Messenger. Food is universal, we all need it to live.But during ...

New coworkers make home office even stranger

Like many of you, I have been working from home for the past few weeks. And while the whole pajama-pants-as-uniform thing is nice, there are other aspects I enjoy much less. This tiny laptop screen is just one of them. (I really shouldn’t have procrastinated on that eye exam.) I ...

Hermit dog mom's hobbies don't match up

It has become increasingly obvious to me lately that my passions and my lifestyle do not exactly — how should I put it? —mesh. In fact, they seem to be diametrically opposed. On all sorts of mildly ridiculous levels. Take, as one of the more obvious examples, my obsession with ...

Path to healing begins with love

Well, we did it, folks. We made it through 2019. It is now, as crazy as it feels to even type it, officially 2020. As for many people, this past year wasn’t an easy one for me. Seeing my boy Pops struggle through his illness and saying goodbye to him in November has been one ...

Kindness is a gift best shared by many

In my previous column, I closed by saying “thank you” to a number of people who helped me navigate my grief through the illness and passing of my beloved dog, Pops. This week I’d like to begin the same way, and tell everyone who so thoughtfully emailed, wrote letters and ...

Saying 'thank you' through the tears

Usually, when I sit down to write one of these, I have a vague idea of how it will go. This is not one of those days. As some of you may have noticed, my column has been absent for a number of weeks. Thanksgiving came and went, without my annual list of things I’m grateful ...