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Mrs. Winters’s Snickerdoodle Cookies
Snickerdoodles. The cookie with the name that is just as fun to say as it is to eat. It’s a cookie of every Iowan’s childhood. Today it is supposed to be spring. Yet, it is 50 degrees outside and rainy and crap-tastic. There is only one remedy and it is the snickerdoodle. When you bake…
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The Swiss Family Carlson Explore Ancient Greek History
E, our oldest, is very into Roman and Greek history. He is so into it that his grandparents bought him a children’s edition of The Odyssey when he was 8. He has read every book in the Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus series. About 50 times! (Two awesome series by Rick Riordan. I…
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The Swiss Family Carlson Seeks the Future in Delphi
Everyone has heard of the Oracle of Delphi; the mysterious omniscient woman who sat on a three-legged stool above the smoking and rotting ruins of a dead snake and spouted cryptic fortunes and prophesies that came to her from Apollo. The fame and promise of all-knowing-ness has prompted others to adopt her name for their…
Mindy Carlson 