By Laura Grimes
When I complained to Mr. Scatter that I had only snippets, no whole stories, he said, “Do centered asterisks.”
“Wha?” I creased my brow.
“Do centered asterisks.”
Like that’s supposed to help me. I’m not sure what the heck he’s talking about.
Oh, wait, there’s one!
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Oh, heck. Now it’s gone.
The Scatter Family is on the road. At the moment, we’re at the coast. Longtime Scatter readers know that when we’re at the coast, tradition calls for really roughing it — which means we buy a tub of cookie dough and then race to see if we can bake all the cookies before it’s time to leave. So far, our winning streak is perfect.
Some months back, we plowed through a tub of dough, blogged all about cookies and plungers, and got back home to headlines that the cookie dough had been recalled because of an e. coli outbreak. Coincidence?