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Introducing, Bowen Thoreau

Happy one month to our perfect addition, Bowen Thoreau, or "Beau." Born December 9th at 11:09
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Introducing, Bowen Thoreau

 Bowen, baby head
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Hello, 2026.

And farewell, 2025. It's early in the morning, typing from my bed with one son on my
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Hello, 2026.

 The clock in downtown Medina, NY.
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Where You Can Donate, Contribute, and Help Your Community

We love talking about food and drinks, but I love to talk about our community even more.
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Where You Can Donate, Contribute, and Help Your Community
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Breaking New Ground at the Lee-Whedon Memorial Library

Last Friday morning, Roux and I stood with our neighbors and community leaders at Lee-Whedon Memorial Library,
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Breaking New Ground at the Lee-Whedon Memorial Library
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Finding Fox Cross
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Ok, Medina. You Win.

On Friday night, the winner this weekend was not a hot restaurant opening in DC. It wasn’t a crafty cocktail in a trendy Buffalo bar. It wasn’t even a bottle of sparkling wine in front of our fire for a hot date night “in”. Main Street, Medina, was the winner by a
January 9, 2017
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Friday Minutes: A New Year to Read…

…and read we will. Our blog and writer friends have been kicking butt already in this brand new year. I don’t know if inspiration has been contagious, but everyone is posting brilliant content this week. So grab another cup of coffee/tea/juice/wine (hey, we never judge…) and relax with our first 2017 Friday
January 6, 2017
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Clinging to the “Real” of 2016

It wasn’t until after I hit publish on the 2016 Hot Minute awards that I realized something. Our amazing dates, our memories, our tumultuous year – it can’t be summed up in a list of subjective “bests”  – I want to look back through these archives and know that the little moments,
January 5, 2017
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2016 Hot Minute Awards

2 years ago we published our first Hot Minute Awards –  a year long compilation of our favorite food, drink, people and places. I think 2015 slipped right by us, and in reflecting on how monumental our last year has been, we felt compelled to remember and highlight the best of it.
January 4, 2017
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Holiday Card 2016

All I can ever think about when hearing the term “holiday card” is the Friends episode where Ross and Mona debate sending out one of their own. Are we really there? Well, we’ve said I love you. And Scott kind of already asked me to marry him. And I guess we are
December 29, 2016
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The 10 Reasons I Love Winter

Happy First Day of Winter!! Though I haven’t been penning posts for almost 3 months while Al has done it all, its time to make a comeback, and this was the perfect way to do it. Cold, snow, shoveling: for some these might sound like awful things, but for me they are
December 21, 2016
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