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    Easy Dinner Party Ideas: Pizza and Paperware

    January 13, 2021 / 10 Comments

    I try to get together with friends at least once a month (or, ideally, once a week!). So I’m always on the lookout for easy dinner party ideas. Matt and I are not great cooks, and we are trying to save money, so we have to get creative.

    In the winter, I love a good chili bar. And a taco bar is a lot of fun!

    The problem is we only have a small number of friends (especially during COVID), so I’m starting to run out of ideas that I haven’t already used!

    Plus, Matt has been feeling particularly rundown after the move. So he needed it to … Read More

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    Sara Cotner
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    Taco Bar: How to Build Community in an Unhappy Country

    January 27, 2020 / No Comments

    I know this taco bar post is kind of lame. I am not one who should be writing about food things! But, hear me out! I’m writing about it because it can be hard to find community in our lives. The United States is only the 19th happiest nation in the world, despite all our material resources. And the research shows that community and connection are significantly linked to happiness. So I say, let’s start planning more things like a taco bar or a chili bar to get together with our friends and neighbors!

    We are becoming close friends with two other families. I try to stoke the flame … Read More

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    Sara Cotner

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Make yourself at home! I’m Sara Cotner, a reader, blogger, author, mother of two, founder of Montessori For All, and sea foam green pottery collector living with a home base in Austin, TX, with Matt Bradford, going on adventures any chance we get. 

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