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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: 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

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

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

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

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

Stepping back into the Kitchen I never really left

December 15, 2014by Addie Broyles 5 Comments

Hi, friends. I think I’m ready to be back in the kitchen. Earlier this year, Ian and I separated and then divorced. We are co-parenting with kindness and love, and […]

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family

Embracing the thorny side of life

March 30, 2014by Addie Broyles 3 Comments

We’re entering a new season here at the Feminist Kitchen. It’s been almost four years since I started this blog as an outlet for ideas that didn’t have any other […]

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family

Rooting for Tami Taylor, Friday Night Feminism and a damn good TV show

December 20, 2013by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

I just finished the 76th and final episode of “Friday Night Lights.” I was late to the FNL game, even though I’d heard people rave about the soundtrack, because I […]

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family, history, television

Idgie Threadgoode, Iggy the cat and Addie the tomboy

July 27, 2013by Addie Broyles 1 Comment

See that cute little tomboy in the lower right hand of that photo? That’s me in fourth grade. Playing team sports year-round and growing more aware by the day of […]

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books, family, history, movies

Happy birthdays, sad birthdays and all the stories in between

May 11, 2013by Addie Broyles 6 Comments

Today is my grandmother’s birthday. She’ll likely be celebrating the day quietly with my parents in Aurora, the Missouri town in which she has lived for more than 60 of […]

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family, history

If I cook and you do the dishes, who watches the kids?

July 15, 2012by Addie Broyles 5 Comments

Keeping track of who has an eye on the kids is one of the hardest, most under-appreciated aspects of parenting. If you’re at a social gathering, it’s so easy to […]

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family, media

A reminder to live life’s moments

March 3, 2012by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

In place of blogging these past few weeks, I’ve been caught up in a whirlwind of work (we’re getting ready to launch a magazine and South by Southwest starts next […]

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family, traditions

25 Minutes or Less: My mom, the blogger

January 31, 2012by Addie Broyles 2 Comments

This 25 minutes or less post is my latest attempt to continue to blog in my increasingly crazy life. It’s not exactly original content, but hopefully you’ll enjoy my mom’s […]

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family, media

Guess who is missing from Guess Who?

December 19, 2011by Addie Broyles Leave a comment

Julian recently got the newest edition of Guess Who?, a favorite game of my own childhood. It’s always interesting to see how such games evolve. Most of the time, like […]

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chatter, family

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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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