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Pimento Cheese is Southern Love
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Mar 30
  • 3 min

Pimento Cheese is Southern Love

Today I made a large batch of pimento cheese. A few weeks ago, I wrote that bread is love. Pimento cheese runs a close second. I make...
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St. Patrick's Day, 1946
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Mar 17
  • 4 min

St. Patrick's Day, 1946

This is an excerpt from my historical novel (a work in progress) about my Dad and his Auntie, who he described as "the leading force in...
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Bread is Love
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Mar 12
  • 3 min

Bread is Love

Bread is a gift of love. It’s personal. Mother made bread and I always think of her when I make it. She said that making bread was good...
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Limiting your Focus
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Feb 13
  • 2 min

Limiting your Focus

I had a delightful morning at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. John Reed presented a class on photographing birds, a benefit of...
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Exploring on sibling time
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jan 31
  • 3 min

Exploring on sibling time

My brother and I planned a one-night getaway where we could spend a little time together without work, family, pets, or other...
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Taking the Pressure Off
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jan 9
  • 3 min

Taking the Pressure Off

After a very quiet and lazy Christmas holiday, I am finding it hard to get in gear. I am probably not alone. When someone wants...
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Not just at Thanksgiving
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Nov 20, 2021
  • 3 min

Not just at Thanksgiving

It's that time of year again. Many Americans will prepare a lavish meal of celebration and thanks while spending time with family and...
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Snow Day in Florida
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Nov 6, 2021
  • 3 min

Snow Day in Florida

We’re hunkered down here in northeast Florida with a Nor’easter blowing through for a couple of days. It’s not actually snowing because...
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"Leave IT!" and Staying Relevant
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Oct 17, 2021
  • 3 min

"Leave IT!" and Staying Relevant

“Leave it,” is a popular training command used when a dog is misbehaving or unfocused. It is preferred over “no,” but a brief enough...
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Change
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Oct 9, 2021
  • 3 min

Change

Are you resistant to change? Usually, I am. When things are going well, I want them to stay that way. When my sons were little, there...
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Choosing Favorites
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Oct 4, 2021
  • 3 min

Choosing Favorites

I’m a fence sitter. I don't like going too far on either side and I can see green grass on both sides. And when there are many choices,...
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Making a Difference - The Squirrel Sisters
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Sep 13, 2021
  • 5 min

Making a Difference - The Squirrel Sisters

Our neighborhood has many hawks so the only reason I noticed this one was because of the desperate call for help coming from beneath its...
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Things aren't always as they may first appear
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Aug 26, 2021
  • 3 min

Things aren't always as they may first appear

Gerald Grapefruit was nurtured by my sister on their farm in Tennessee during his formative years. She planted seeds from a particularly...
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Rescuing Fletch
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Aug 16, 2021
  • 4 min

Rescuing Fletch

Black clouds were rolling in from the east over the Atlantic as I drove to church that morning, late again. My umbrella and pink...
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Love You So!
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Aug 7, 2021
  • 2 min

Love You So!

Laura was one of those friends who, even though months and years went by without a visit, you immediately caught up with as if no time...
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Raising the bar
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jul 16, 2021
  • 3 min

Raising the bar

Parking in a shady spot at the doctor’s office, I obeyed the “Florida rule” of cracking my windows to reduce heat accumulation. After my...
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Simplicity: the Beauty of One
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jul 10, 2021
  • 3 min

Simplicity: the Beauty of One

Journalist Cynthia Barnett came to our local independent bookstore, Story & Song, to discuss her new book, The Sound of the Sea. She...
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Goal setting and the great squirrel hunt
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jun 22, 2021
  • 3 min

Goal setting and the great squirrel hunt

I love a good plan and recently my dog, Leah, helped me see that there is more to a successful plan than reaching short term goals. ...
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Dad:  Honoring the big fish
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jun 20, 2021
  • 3 min

Dad: Honoring the big fish

Dad was a gentle soul with a love for travel and food, who was thoughtful and giving, and the best letter writer I have ever known. I’ve...
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Dog Party
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • May 17, 2021
  • 7 min

Dog Party

It hardly seems possible that the dog that most influenced my life and helped raise my two boys has been gone for ten years. When I...
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