If you want to be skinny, and stay skinny, there’s one thing you need to do: Love Your Vegetables. I mean, really LOVE them. You have to find a way to cook them, without fancy high-fat creams and sauces, that causes you to crave them as much as you would crave a candy bar. Heck, [...]
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In the middle of Christmas shopping, and grocery shopping for all the guests for the holidays, I ran out of my favorite shampoo. When I say favorite, I don’t mean I like the shampoo; I mean it is my hair’s favorite shampoo. My hair just won’t cooperate without this shampoo; this shampoo is the only [...]
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A fragment of a grocery shopping list… this is probably about 25-30 years old. It’s her handwriting. The address label is her mother’s… also about 25-30 years old. I keep these fragments tucked into a drawer… too insignificant for a page in scrapbook, or it’s own “sleeve” in a photo album, but because her handwriting [...]
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While we were staying at the hospital for our 23 hour tour, he was not allowed to eat. Surgery may have been eminent. His IV was hooked up for fluids (spare me the memory of watching him squirm and cry while his vein “blew” three times just trying to place the IV). The next morning, [...]
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So, friend, this is what I ended up making for that dinner party. This cobbler cheesecake was so beautiful when it came out of the oven. However, by the time I had the camera ready, this is all that was left. It was so gorgeous, with the parchment paper all crinkly and brown and [...]
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He’s fine. We thought he was having an acute appendicitis… which called for an overnight “Observation.” While there, he miraculously got better. Thank goodness… no cutting involved. The hospital has just undergone a major renovation… the rooms, were beautiful. Sadly beautiful, like a posh hotel. Which, is truly, such a tragedy, that we ever need [...]
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I could not fathom how people could celebrate Christmas, full of the same expectation and joy that accompanies Advent, after Christmas. Some families, because relatives live out of state or travel or work constraints, decide to celebrate Christmas post-holidays — and hearing about those gatherings, I expected those celebrations to have a gray cast over [...]
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“OH Yeah! Well, when you go to bed you wear an Origami KIMONO! And I’m telling everyone at school!!!…..” Blurry Kodachrome memories…. when things just move too fast — and there’s no camera fast enough to catch them. I did my best.
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