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Feel Good Friday is a gratitude list I write each week to express my appreciation for all of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Mama here!! We didn’t get nearly enough time together—we didn’t make it for…

Allen

In Scotland and Ireland, family history and surnames are incredibly important. So I got briefly obsessed with the Scotch Irish history of the Allen name. I even spent time in Belfast in the PRONI—Public Records Office of Northern Ireland—attempting very unsuccessfully to research my family (I should have come more prepared). However, across Scotland and…

Happy Birthday DailyHap!

We thank everyone for supporting DailyHap here, but I cannot even convey how deep my gratitude and appreciation for my mom’s partnership in this endeavor … beyond what she “invests” (and that’s substantial: not only time, energy, and curiosity, but some all-important $$$), my mom has always had this completely unreasonable expectation that I can…

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Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! An unexpected week spent with my family. While my grandma’s passing was sad, it gave my entire extended family a chance to spend a…

Austin: Gluten-Free Dinner at Olive & June

Italian and gluten-free don’t often go hand-in-hand … pastas, breads, and pizzas are serious gluten bombs. But leave it to parkside’s, backspace’s, and Olive & June’s Chef Shawn Cirkiel to create a five-course  Southern Italian-style gluten-free dinner in honor of Celiac Awareness month. Olive & June will host two of the gluten-free dinners on May…

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Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Holy crap it’s March. That actually doesn’t make me feel good, but DailyHap‘s first month birthday is pretty awesome! The best skiing day I’ve…

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Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Epic ski weekend last weekend. Lessons, pow, hot tubs, friends, double-blacks … oh yeah. This paleo-ish cookie recipe. It’s amazingly delicious, memorized, and so…

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Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! The comment section for last week’s Feel Good Friday blew. me. away. I freakin’ love you guys. This. Effing. Closet. Seriously, how amazing is…

A Fresh JewelMint Code + BeautyMint $1 Donation

I get unbelievable amounts of compliments on my JewelMint earrings. I literally have NEVER worn these and NOT been complimented on them. These new babies just arrived in the mail and I’m certain they will receive much love too: And so you can get in on the goodness, I have a new discount code for…