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Eat These Words {Undistracted Devotion}

by Darcy Wiley | Sep 11, 2012 | Buttons & Thread, Pocket Change, Relish

I’ve been putting off the week’s trip to the grocery…don’t want to take the kids, but too tired to go late night. One morning I go to the half-bare pantry and settle on what’s left for breakfast…carb-heavy, sugared-up CoCo Wheats. It tastes like childhood,...

Widows and Wedding China: How to Clean Up a Lonely Mess

by Darcy Wiley | Feb 15, 2012 | Pocket Change, Relish, Sweet Tea

Asparagus sizzled in the top oven. I pulled lasagna from the other and looked up. The golden girl waltzed through the door with pep in her step. She came bearing hugs and kisses and cards, and beamed as my boy told her she was “thinking really good” when she got him...

Comfort Food for the Trampled Soul

by Darcy Wiley | Jan 23, 2012 | Pocket Change, Relish

We pull our chopsticks from their wax paper wrappers, snap them apart and graze them against one another, like twigs starting a fire or iron sharpening iron, to smooth out the splinters while our food steams and cooks in the kitchen. I turn the English and pinying...