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entertaining angels: guest post on Splickety Magazine
Splickety Magazine I am excited to be a contributing writer on Splickety Magazine’s Lightning Blog, an online “flash fiction” magazine. If you like to read, but don’t have time, try reading...
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have you ever welcomed a stranger?
Followers of Beurier Noir One summer, Quebec City mistakenly invited the violent French punk band “Beurier Noir” to the Summer Festival, thinking somehow that they were getting the Back Street Boys....
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how a hungry teenager learned to cook
James’ recipe for Chili-rubbed Steaks with Pan Salsa: “Multiply by 2 or 4 if you are not an elf.” Oh, happy day when your children learn how to cook! The sun shines, the birds sing, and for one brief...
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24, the dinner party
Have you ever found out at the last minute guests were coming for dinner? Stumped for a fast, easy, affordable way to pull off a dinner party for four? I’m guesting over at Splickety magazine on how...
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the perfect dessert: chocolate coconut fondue and good conversation
chocolate coconut fondue This is for my friend Christa Sterken, who is craving something sweet today. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci You heard the man. You don’t have to...
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let thy food be medicine: good food is healing for body and spirit
“Let food be thy medicine,” Hippocrates wrote 2400 years before anyone had ever heard of Whole Foods, Dr. Oz or Andrew Weill. What should you eat when you’re sick? Chicken noodle soup, apple sauce,...
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summertime and the living is easy: guest post on splickety magazine
“Summertime, and the living is easy Fish are jumping, and the cotton is high Your daddy’s rich, and your momma’s good looking So hush little baby, don’t you cry.” - Summertime by George Gershwin Well,...
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aliens, prequels, Spielberg and bruschetta
Hubs got home before me and called to see if he could get dinner started. I asked him to grill some chicken marinated in a little balsamic vinegar and olive oil. By the time I got home, he had...
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how to rebuild a shed in five easy steps
…and that goes for your little dog too. 1. Buy a shed building kit. Accidentally build the shed on county parkland adjacent to your property, which you have been mowing and maintaining for many years...
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healing your metabolism
My friend Babette convinced me to try the new diet she is on, The Fast Metabolism Diet by Haylie Pomroy. The subtitle of The Fast Metabolism Diet is “Eat more food and lose more weight.” I like the...
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can your brain function without caffeine?
Because I am an eternal optimist, and extremely impulsive and easily persuaded, I decided to jump on my friend Babette’s bandwagon and do the Fast Metabolism diet. ”You have to give up wheat, corn,...
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the “little black dress of salads,” recipe by neritia
Neritia and Zoe My writer friend Neritia van Zyl, hailing all the way from South Africa, shared this refreshing, easy salad recipe, which she calls “the little black dress of salads.” We made it for...
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just to be is a blessing. just to live is holy.
Kathleen Caron Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Joshua Abraham Heschel This morning I woke to the sound of Canada geese flying overhead. As they flew over my house, the beautiful,...
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the case of the missing birthday cake, and a recipe for you
what happened to the cake? Teacher work days and school’s out! Two glorious days of unfettered freedom, and Joe and his friends have been living it up. The night before last they built a fire in the...
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how i plan to stay healthy this winter
Southern Greens Blend, available at Trader Joe’s I’ve only had the flu one time, and I don’t remember much about it except sitting on the sofa in a fever-induced hallucinatory state, with baby Joe...
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what’s your favorite store? mine is trader joe’s
“What’s your favorite store?” I posed this question at the dinner table. Hubs answered without hesitation, “Home Depot, I just love all those tools.” “Probably Modell’s or Gamestop,” Joe said, then...
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ploughman’s lunch (no ploughing required)
“ploughmans’ rest” public domain One of my family’s favorite meals is what we refer to as a “ploughman’s lunch.” Traditionally, a ploughman’s lunch is what the ploughman’s wife would tie up in a...
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the quest for a healthy kit kat bar
Photo by Kathleen Caron When I wrote about “comfort food that is good for you” my friend Christa (christasterken.com) responded: “My fave comfort food is Kit Kats, yellow cake with chocolate frosting,...
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