The Big Game, Books & Baking

Reading options to occupy me until the Usher half-time show:

[Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones, A Christmas to Remember by (The Ms.) Beverly Jenkins, The Takedown by Carlie Walker, Clover Hendry's Day Off by Beth Morrey]

Baking is my year-round love language amplified during the month of February.

Wishing you healthy love and assorted goodies every day of the year.

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