Bread, Sweat, and Tears

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of folks got really into bread baking. Banana bread! Biscuits! Sourdough! (So much sourdough.) Ashley got into bread baking too, but for an entirely different reason. A week before quarantine began, Ashley’s wife died of a heart attack after years of living with cerebral palsy. Ashley wasn’t just lonely … she was ALONE. So she turned to baking as a way to heal. Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McNeerney and this is Terrible Thanks for asking.
0:08.1	And this is Hannah Mi Cacross.
0:10.0	Hi!
0:11.0	I'm recording because I wanted to get the walk-up sounds.
0:15.9	Okay.
0:16.9	So, yeah.
0:17.9	Hey, everybody, I'm Hannah.
0:21.9	It's March 2021 and Hannah has driven from her house on the east side of Minneapolis
0:26.3	over to North Minneapolis where there's a little free bread box, a simple little wooden
0:31.3	box on top of a wooden post with a hinged door and a sign encouraging people to take some
0:37.3	free bread.
0:39.7	Around the bread box are neighbors, stopping by to get a loaf of artisan no need bread,
0:44.3	a baguette, a couple bagels.
0:47.3	Every Saturday the bread box is refilled with free homemade bread for the neighborhood.
0:52.9	It's an act of love from Ashley Groeschek, who comes from a long line of bread loving women.
1:00.2	So bread has always been a really important thing for me growing up my grandma baked bread,
1:06.0	right?
1:07.0	And when my grandma baked bread, oh my, like she baked like 15 loaves at a time and she
1:12.4	would send you home with one and I was like, why don't you love me?
1:16.7	So I grew up baking bread with my grandma, like baking bread and Jason, like she would give
1:21.2	me some dough and be like, here, don't touch the rest of this.
1:34.1	This free bread is an act of love, but it's also an act of grief, a way for Ashley to physically
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