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Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. In these tender, humorous stories, Funk stitches together the wondrous and the mundane: making snow angels and carrying sacks of potatoes, tossing pig bladders like footballs, and vying for the Christmas pageant spotlight.

Teralyn Pilgrim had no idea the environmental and economic impact of food waste, or that she could save $100 a month by being waste free. But when a story of hungry children fills her with unbearable guilt, she decided to make a change to the way her family approached mealtime. Despite finicky kids and a skeptical husband, Pilgrim turned her feelings of guilt into action and created a zero-food waste kitchen.

Cuando me miro en el espejo veo a un pibe que ha hecho mucho daño a otros pibes. Veo a un joven violento que ha llevado por el camino de la amargura a sus viejos. Veo a un golfo que ha traicionado a sus parejas. Pero hay algo más. Un leve, casi inapreciable brillo en los ojos, un pequeño rincón de paz. Y es que he conseguido con mucho sacrificio salir adelante y abandonar el pozo de las drogas gracias a mi religión: el boxeo. He llevado una carrera profesional, he llenado pabellones, me he sentido querido.