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Author Archives: Addie Broyles

We can do hard things: Pet loss and grief in the time of COVID-19

September 27, 2020by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

We’ve been in mourning this week. On Thursday, we said goodbye to Shiva, our blue heeler who had been with me or my ex-husband or someone in my family for […]

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family, history, traditions

One year, six quilts: For Kandice K. (both of them)

February 11, 2020by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

Editor’s note: This post is part of a year-long series in which I finish all the unfinished quilts in my house and write about them. I have two friends named […]

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quilting

One year, six quilts: Let’s put these babies to bed

January 4, 2020by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

In the quilting world, they are called UFOs. Unfinished objects. Any sewer worth their seam ripper has a whole stash of them. Projects they’ve started with a rush of creative […]

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family, history, quilting

A sweet taste at the end of a bittersweet journey

March 30, 2019by Addie Broyles 5 Comments

One of my dad’s last bites of real food was a slice of Texas orange. It was mid-January, and he was days from death. For 18 months, he’d had a […]

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Listen to This: Meditating with Russell Brand, Ruby Wax and that guy from Headspace

February 4, 2018by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

Who would have thought that Russell Brand would host one of my favorite podcasts? I could not have cared less about this British comedian until last summer, when he started […]

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media, podcasts

Thanks to online dating, I know what it’s like to drown in a sea of fish

January 21, 2018by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

Before online dating, I didn’t think it was possible to drown in a sea of fish. Way back in 2016, I finally jumped on the internet to try to find […]

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love

It’s 2018 — My sons wear fingernail polish. Stop calling it ‘girlie.’

January 7, 2018by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

I’m always amazed when people are surprised that my sons wear fingernail polish. Their dad is a rock-and-roll guy with earrings and eyeliner. We live in Austin. Their mom is […]

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family

Listen to This: Two podcast episodes from ‘Millennial’ that will make you rethink millennials

December 9, 2017by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

I consume podcasts in the way I once consumed magazines. I still try to read books and stay up with a couple of magazines, but I listen to more than […]

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podcasts

What does it mean to be a millennial mom?

December 3, 2017by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

I feel very much like a millennial, and this surprises people. It came up at the eye doctor’s the other day. “You’re not a millennial. You don’t seem entitled and […]

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family

What better Christmas surprise than a living link to Sweden?

January 14, 2017by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

Just when I thought my Sweden story was coming to an end, a new chapter began. A few weeks before Christmas, I received an email from a man named Ronney. […]

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family, history

Daydreaming about the Swedish homeland (and hedgehogs)

December 13, 2016by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

Hedgehogs are apparently all over Gotland, and I didn’t see a one. Mainland Sweden has hedgehogs too, but so does this island 60 miles offshore. Four months ago, my sister […]

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family, history, travel

After 124 years, Sweden beckons, so here I go

August 8, 2016by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

In 1892, my great great grandmother got on a boat. She was 37 years old and living on an island in the middle of the Baltic Sea with her two […]

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family, history, travel

Ten years later, I’m still in love, in mourning and in rainbows

June 23, 2016by Addie Broyles 3 Comments

Troy died 10 years ago today.

If you’ve known me for any length of time for the past 15 years, that name has come up.

Troy was my best friend. Like, that best friend at the top of the best friend pile who is secretly your favorite.

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family, history, love

Swiping Right in the Elementary School Parking Lot

June 6, 2016by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

Even Picasso’s blue period came to an end. Those were my friend’s helpful words when I told him that my casual-meaningful-fleeting-monogomous relationship had ended. We’d been dating for a good […]

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love

Sexy magazines, stretch goals, why I can’t get the ink off my fingers

February 5, 2016by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

Magazines have always been something I treasured. I read them as a kid, but it wasn’t until journalism school that I really fell hard for them. The edgy design and […]

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family, magazines

Planting roots, growing branches and knowing when it’s time to go (alone)

November 1, 2015by Addie Broyles 4 Comments

“Are you traveling by yourself?” I was surprised at just how many times I received that question while on my latest adventure. I write this post the night before I […]

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travel

Back to blogging, with a detour through Spain and the land of letting go

September 27, 2015by Addie Broyles 3 Comments

The Feminist Kitchen quietly turned 5 this summer. So did the little boy whose arrival is what nudged me to start it in the first place. I turned 32 smack […]

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travel

Ten Years on Facebook, and Everything I Feared About It Is True

February 28, 2015by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

Facebook is Narcissism in its Purest and Greatest Form. That’s how I felt about Facebook when I first (reluctantly) joined, 10 years ago this month. That’s also the name of […]

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media

Learning to YOLO from an 8-year-old

February 7, 2015by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

That baby that changed everything turned 8 recently. I guess all babies change everything, but this one. This Julian. This kid, my squirrely ray of sunshine that loves Minecraft, Pokeman, […]

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family

Sleeping under a quilt that’s older than all of us

January 4, 2015by Addie Broyles 4 Comments

When I come home to visit Mom and Dad, I sleep under a fern. Bigger than a dog, smaller than a car, it’s a fuzzy green orb looking soft from […]

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family, history, quilting

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About Addie

Addie Broyles is a food writer for the Austin American-Statesman. She is also a freelance writer, Missourian and mom of two.

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