~ raw, vegan, gluten-free ~ Nutty, crunchy, chewy oatmeal cookies with a lovely warming bite of ginger and cinnamon and fresh winter pears… snuggle me up and hand me a cookie, please! Did I ever tell you the time that I made oatmeal cookies when I was younger?  I was in sixth grade and we were living in Bismarck, ND.  The winters were “my-toes-want-to-curl-up-inside-my-body-cold!”  We lived there about two years and I experienced the coldest winters ever, even the twenty-eight years of living in Alaska didn’t compare! Anyway, it was a cold day, a perfect time to stay indoors and bake some oatmeal cookies for my mom.  The…