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Kirsten Schofield

Blueberry cobblers with ice cream and extra blueberries (Getty Images/mitchellpictures)

Aunt Audrey’s cobbler is the ultimate throw-it-together summer dessert

Kirsten Schofield
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Salon’s social bootcamp: Noisy Airbnb renters invaded my historic ‘hood

Kirsten Schofield
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Salon’s social bootcamp: “Mild friends” get married — how much present do you give?

Kirsten Schofield
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Salon’s social bootcamp: Thank-you notes, invitations and the plight of the empty mailbox

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Salon’s social bootcamp: Is a swanky restaurant too much for a first date?

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Salon’s social bootcamp: A guide for subway crusaders and ignoring co-workers on the bus

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Salon’s social bootcamp: He says licking his fingers at the table is fine

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Salon’s social bootcamp: Our mutual friend isn’t invited to her wedding? And how soon is too soon to call him Doctor?

Kirsten Schofield