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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Never Let a Good Baby Go to Waste
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Mar 31, 2021
  • 2 min

Never Let a Good Baby Go to Waste

"Never let a good baby go to waste" was one of Mom’s expressions, usually said right before she scooped up an infant in her arms and...
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Naming the baby
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Mar 31, 2021
  • 3 min

Naming the baby

The day my second grandson was born, his dad, my firstborn, called the house to inform the gathered family members. After assurances...
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Clipping Service
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Feb 6, 2021
  • 3 min

Clipping Service

Our local print paper, The Fernandina Beach News-Leader, recently published one of my stories. I instinctively clipped it for Mom, the...
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Dry Bones
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Jan 10, 2021
  • 2 min

Dry Bones

Boneyard Beach on Big Talbot Island (Jacksonville, Florida) was my last nature adventure destination of 2020 and turned out to be a...
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Community and Friendship
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Dec 2, 2020
  • 3 min

Community and Friendship

One of the things I love about living on Amelia Island is that people are friendly and caring. I’m especially fond of my neighborhood,...
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Thankful on Amelia Island
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Nov 20, 2020
  • 3 min

Thankful on Amelia Island

This will be a Thanksgiving like no other. Hand sanitizer on the buffet table seems like a terrible intrusion, but these are strange...
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Butterfly Kisses (despite Covid)
Katherine Dudley Hoehn
  • Nov 8, 2020
  • 3 min

Butterfly Kisses (despite Covid)

Not much about the last eight months has been predictable except that nothing will be predictable for a while. Plans have been torched,...
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