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Small Groups, Big Impacts (and the Pumpkin Recipes that Brought Us Together)
In this post, I share about small groups I've been a part of in six different states, along with pumpkin recipes to enjoy at home!
Sep 13, 2024


Muffins: My Gateway to Baking
No one in ministry wants to admit that the job (or service work) can become stale at times. People in that realm should be always...
May 12, 2024


Food Service As It Shouldn't Be
Most people have had a job they hated, but they stuck with it for one reason or another. For me, it was working at Panera Bread my first...
Jun 17, 2023


An Ode to Scones
I love a good scone. You may think I’m using the word “love” too loosely here. But if I had to choose my favorite thing to bake, which...
Jun 10, 2023


A Berry Good Brightwater Beginning
When I was looking for a culinary program, I didn’t have many criteria. I wanted somewhere relatively close to my parents, either within...
May 21, 2023


Food Memories
This past weekend I said “goodbye” to a friend I knew in Oklahoma before I moved. David Glenn Stone (DGS - or as many people knew him -...
Mar 14, 2023


Food System Dilemmas
In January 2017 when I began culinary school at Brightwater: A Center for the Study of Food, I did not know the experience that was...
Jan 23, 2023


Nomadic Baker Beginnings
In the fall of 2016 my parents were driving through Denver on their way from California back to Oklahoma in a 1969 MGB GT named Rolo. It...
Dec 30, 2022
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