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The Diagnosis
Part 5 of My Story - blog draft, October 14, 2026 This is Part 5 of my story. If you're just joining: Part 1 was the girl at the YMCA pool. Part 2 was the crash. Part 3 was two Ironman finish lines. Part 4 was the race I didn't finish, and the ten years...
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Eyeball Pretzel Bites
These Eyeball Pretzel Bites take three ingredients and about fifteen minutes of hands-on work, which is exactly why they have stayed in my October rotation. I have made them with both pretzel snaps and mini twist pretzels, and the snaps win every time. The flat square gives the…
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17 No-Bake Christmas Treats (Easy Holiday Desserts Without the Oven!)
The oven is the hardest-working appliance in the house in December. Between the cookies, the casseroles and the Christmas ham, there is never a free rack when you need one. That is exactly why I love no-bake Christmas treats! These 17 easy recipes skip the oven completely. You…
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The Unraveling
This is Part 4 of my story. If you're just joining: Part 1 was the girl at the YMCA pool. Part 2 was the crash. Part 3 was two Ironman finish lines, Mont Tremblant in 2015 and Lake Placid in 2018, and the version of me a lot of you first met. At the end...
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27 Thanksgiving Desserts That Aren't Pie
Every year the dessert table ends up holding three pies and nothing else, and by the time people get to it they have already eaten a full plate of turkey and stuffing. What most of them want is one small sweet thing, not a wedge of pie. These are the Thanksgiving desserts I…
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Becoming an Ironman
This is Part 3 of my story. If you're just joining: Part 1 was the girl at the YMCA pool and the dream that waited thirty years. Part 2 was the crash seven weeks before Ironman Mont Tremblant - and a broken arm I'd been training on without knowing it. I had decided to race...
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Brown Butter Apple Cider Snickerdoodles
Brown butter apple cider snickerdoodles take everything good about a classic cinnamon sugar cookie and give it a proper fall accent. Browning the butter toasts the milk solids into something nutty and almost caramel, and boiling fresh apple cider down into a thick syrup…
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Air Fryer Fish Sticks
These air fryer fish sticks come out golden and crispy in about 10 minutes, straight from the freezer - no thawing, no oil, no mess. I tested a batch in my basket-style air fryer at 400°F and 10 minutes was the sweet spot - at 9 they were hot but not crunchy. This is the...
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Air Fryer Hawaiian Roll Garlic Bread
This air fryer Hawaiian roll garlic bread turns a package of sweet rolls into cheesy, pull-apart garlic bread in under 20 minutes. I tested this recipe four times before landing on the right cut depth - about three-quarters of the way down, deep enough to really tuck the cheese…
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The Crash
This is Part 2 of my story. If you're just joining: Part 1 was the girl at the YMCA pool, and the dream that waited thirty years. By now I was deep in training for Ironman Mont Tremblant. Which brings us to a Saturday morning in Maine. I had been told by numerous people that...