“So, Lucie…what are you up to?” I get that a lot. People want to know what I’ve been up to post book. And it’s a legitimate question. The answer is like me —a messy blur of things. Of course, I’ve worked with Jason and the whole LoLa team to open the berry wing of the operation: […]
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Cocktail Party Primer — All Poultry Edition
It’s happening. Right now, folks are dusting the cheese trays and reaching into the high cupboard for the cocktail shakers in preparation of holiday parties — but are you ready with winsome conversational small talk? No worries, Locally Laid has you covered with interesting poultry chitchat which will surely be the social lubricant of any […]
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Booksellers, Bat Sh*t & Scary Driveways
Here’s an excerpt of the short acceptance speech for the 2016 Midwest Choice Awards held recently in Minneapolis… Now I’ve been thinking about bookstores and midsize farms and they have some things in common. For one, I’m thinking when you tell someone that you’re buying a bookstore, you likely get the same reaction we […]
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A Little Book Signing Miracle…
I’m not really sure how the book is doing in the big picture, and sometimes I’m discouraged that it hasn’t really seen a national stage. Then something like this happens … I told the What the Faulk Show podcast last night about a little book signing miracle: A woman stood before the table, clutching her […]
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Remembering that wild Super Bowl Contest & YOU
Hard to believe that two years ago we were sprinting through Intuit’s Small Business Big Game contest.
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What we’re reading at the farm – “We Know How this Ends”
Out at the farm, I listen to many audio books, podcasts and in this heat, I like to sneak into the cooler to read for a few minutes every day that I am there – mostly egg-washing Sundays. While I’m almost always at the farm with other folks, it seems I rarely work alongside […]
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