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Running into 2024

Hello 2024!

Hello to 2024, Friends! I hope finds you well and happy. 2024 is off to a chilly start here in Southeastern Virginia, so I’m taking time indoors on this cold day to fill you in on the highs and lows of 2023. December 2023 brought with it a few new adventures for us. The City […]

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Go Start

Go Start My son’s second grade teacher sent a photo today of the CookieText® Andrew gave her for Christmas that year. It was 2011, and I’d launched the business that October. Cringeworthy. That’s the best word to describe the CookieText in the photo sent by Mrs. Hunt. It made me wince a little to see it: […]

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Who Are We Really Giving For?

I was perusing the obituaries online early this week (I know, it’s a morbid habit I picked up when I used to work in a hospital  with old people) and was instantly struck numb.  Suddenly I could feel tears welling up in my eyes. There on the screen was a lovely picture of a doctor that […]

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Local Mom Makes Good (Cookies, that is)!

Local Mom Makes Good (Cookies, that is)! I grew up in Hampton, Virginia. In what is now the hip section known as Phoebus. My parents used to go up to Clyde’s and play shuffleboard. If we were super lucky my dad would take us to Fuller’s for a plate of fries and some Root beers. […]

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Good Vibes

I have a favorite ball cap. It’s got a little partial rainbow on the front and says beneath the rainbow, “Good Vibes.” My brother Jerome was hospitalized in early June. He had a lot going on medically, so the forecast for recovery was pretty grim. I would go to see him each day and learned […]

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Time to Stop being so Nice.

Here we are! October 3rd marks 8 years of delivering CookieTexts. I tend to sit here at the keyboard around this time of year to reflect on the past 12 months. I still love my job. A highlight of the year was working at a Career Fair at John Tyler Elementary  in Hampton in the […]

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10 Rules for Asking a Small Business to Support Your Cause

Nobody wants to talk about this. I don’t want to talk about this, but as Glennon Doyle says, “We can do hard things.” Before we discuss the do’s and don’ts of asking a small business to support your cause, let’s establish givens: A. I love my community. B. I am a giver by nature, so […]

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Where do you Draw the line on Delivery?

Having a gift delivery business is a bit of a challenge. Where do we draw the lines? Are they set in stone? Our Southside delivery doesn’t always make sense to people. That’s because the website had to be set up by zip code. Either the zip code was in or out. For instance there’s a […]

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Colored Pencils and Character

Coloring and Character

“Can I please be excused? I have a lot of homework,” Eddie, my 15-year old, said at the dinner table. “Sure. Do you need any help with anything?” I replied. “Maybe some coloring…cutting.” “Okay,” I said, “I like coloring.” I don’t do my children’s homework. I’ve never filled in a blank, done a math problem, […]

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An inside look at Valentine’s day…

Things went remarkably smoothly on Valentine’s Day. There were a few minor hiccups, and one driver racing to get some CookieTexts to a school before the final bell (my fault, not hers, I should have sent that order on another route), but considering the volume of orders we put out, it went smooth like…butter. Tuesday […]

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Can You Keep a Secret?

A friend and customer called the other day to tell me how it occured to her that at Cookie Text we likely have lots of local gossip. I laughed…because it’s actually kind of true. There is a bit of secret-keeping that happens in our cookie kitchen, and I have to admit, it’s often fun to […]

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A Remarkable Year?

I liken our 6th birthday to being awarded 2nd runner up. Sure it’s something, it’s just not…remarkable. I mean, 5 years in business felt like a landmark, but six? Six is just…six. My husband of 18 years and I split this past year. Now, that’s something remarkable. Significant. Life-changing. Personally, my year was remarkable. Professionally, honestly, it […]

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