Any high school musical theater folks out there? Or musical theater folks in general? I was BIG into musical theater in high school – and still am, though I’m just a fan off the stage instead of on it. Those moments before the curtain rose, or each time you waited in the wings for an entrance, or mimed dance moves back stage to get out all of that nervous energy were the ultimate thrill. And every time that curtain came up or you walked onto the stage you were entirely free of yourself – you were living this totally fantastically new life of Cecily Cardew or Plate number 5 or…
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Gluten Free Ube Angel Food Cake
Ube got me through one of the weirdest days of 2020. Now, I know what you’re thinking: what day WASN’T a weird day in 2020. Touché. But the 9th of September 2020 was a particularly bad day. The 8th of September, a fire started at the north end of Ashland, Oregon, where Kendra (the other half of SSG), my parents, my grandmother, dear friends, and a few aunts and uncles and cousins all live, and tore through most of the Rogue Valley like, you guessed it, wildfire, demolishing thousands of homes in its path. From 10am to 10pm that day, I was getting Twitter updates to track the fire’s spread,…
