# 239: Celebrating Our 3rd Anniversary

Happy Birthday to Us Dear Readers!

Highlights of a Wonderful Year!

I can hardly believe that we have just completed the third year of our newsletter! This year there were 67 posts and we’ve just started once a month live Zoom bakes for paid subscribers.

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Whether it is clicking on the ❤️ for likes, your wonderful and heartfelt comments, or paid subscriptions which I greatly appreciate, I simply could not do this work without you. That we are sharing this journey truly means the world to me and I thank you from the bottom of my ❤️!

So to celebrate, here are a few favorite posts from over the last 12 months. AND, you’ll find a special 20% off birthday sale offer after them, too. ⬇️

OK, here’s to year Number Four!

12 Highlights from Year Three

• A little story about setting boundaries plus a pie recipe that might help with that practice.

• Remember hand written letters? I share my thoughts with Anne Byrn in a letter I wrote to her…by hand.

• Whether big or small, the kitchen is my favorite room of all. (I’ll be writing more about favorite kitchens in this upcoming year!)

• An easy recipe for bread that I've been making for over fifty years. Many of you checked in with me to share that you made and loved it, too! Thank you!

• Another bake I’ve been sharing with friends for over fifty years! It’s a classic and it’s gluten free.

• Photo highlights from my walk in the Channel Islands between France and England. (This year I’ll be traveling to the coast of Brittany and sharing photos and words after my walk there.)

• I love chai and here’s how I make a homemade version.

• It’s not every day that a piece of music is composed for you! I am so honored that Matt at Fog Chaser did that.

• A trip to DC to hear my friend Richard O’Neill when he was invited to play a Stradivari viola at Library of Congress. It was a whirlwind journey where I met the most amazing people by just smiling and saying “Hello.”

• An ongoing alphabet series that begins with A, and yes, that is my friend Ruth Reichl and me making pie together in the photo.

• Pi Day, how Oppenheimer is connected to it, ways to celebrate, and a whole host of pie recipes!

• Baking Therapy and Emotional Contagion in the Kitchen plus a very special story about Vince who made 60 Pies to Celebrate 60 Years.

Special 3rd Anniversary 20% Off Sale

As we celebrate the 3rd anniversary of our newsletter, here’s a special discount offer for new paid subscribers. For this week only, enjoy 20% off your new annual subscription for one year!

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I made this with a canning jar lid and markers.