Celebrate Mother’s Day and Help Other Women
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Yearly Archives: 2008
What’s Up with Feeling Guilty about Food?
I actually think that I am going to implode one day and it won’t be because of the seriously […]
I was away but now I’m back
I have just returned from a very pleasurable five-day visit to California. (Did you miss me?) We visited […]
Pleasurable and free
There are a lot of things that are pleasurable and free but today I’m talking about the pleasure […]
All-American
“He lives in an ordinary, all-American sort of place…” begins an article by David Mehegan in the Boston Globe […]
Don’t say no to yourself
So many of us limit ourselves. It is easy to do. It is difficult to counter the negative […]
Not going out with y’all no more
There are folks that I won’t go out to dinner with any more. They like to complain, compare […]
Bor-ing, Bles-sing
There have been times in my life when nothing much was going on except the routine things of […]
Every One a Miracle
Every single human being is a miracle of conception and construction (and, for now at least, a miracle […]
A touch, a touch, a touch
I have observed that when dogs and cats see other dogs and cats, they rub against each other and […]
Crazy as a Road Lizard (with apologies to lizards)
In the past couple of weeks I’ve had some close encounters with some folks I know that fit […]
I Did it with my Own Two Hands
Sometimes I surprise myself. Sometimes I surprise others. I surprised myself and my family when I recently did […]
Dump the Experts
Despite my trepidation about the proliferation of make-over shows and the insidiousness of experts on TV, I would […]
Bad taste better than no taste?
If you’ve looked at certain websites, been passed an email with tacky-terrible images or watched any number of trashy TV reality […]
Nobody’s Family is Going to Change
Nobody’s Family is Going to Change is the title of a children’s novel by Louise Fitzhugh. I reviewed […]
Don’t Eat the Food, Drink the Water, and you might ...
What’s going on? Are we in the ending days that I remember from the sermons of my youth?Who’s […]
True Leadership and Wisdom – Go Obama!
The speech Presidential candidate Barack Obama gave on March 18, 2008, was one of the best and most […]
Tuscan Inspired Tomato and White Bean Soup
This is only the second recipe I’ve posted on my blog so you know it had to be […]