One of my dreams is to cycle through the Dutch tulip fields with my husband. Yes, it sounds impossible and it may be, considering that someone recently asked me why I don’t have a handicap parking permit! Yet, dreaming is fun and, who knows, perhaps I will get well again. These days I’ve been working […]
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Review: Unstuffed by Ruth Soukup
Occasionally I feel burdened by stuff. Sometimes it’s our stuffed bookshelves, other times it’s my to-do list, and often it’s my desk which seems to attract all the piles that build up nowhere else. Usually my approach is to get busy and do something about it, but recently I was too tired for that so […]
Review: 52 Ways to Connect with Your Smartphone Obsessed Kid by Jonathan McKee
Smartphone use, a huge social experiment that some say is leading to disaster, needs to change. We all need to learn to be ‘smarter than our smartphones.’ And while we parents are trying to learn this, we need to be teaching our teens as well. That’s a tall order, especially since the devices are addicting. […]
Want your family to be healthier?
Want your family to be healthier? Me, too. We have all heard that many of the health conditions many of us deal with are modern-day issues, from the increase in cancer and heart disease to the explosion of autoimmune diseases and mental illness. Undoubtedly these conditions are partly related to things we have no control […]
Banana Peach ‘Mushrooms’
For a celebration this month, one of my children requested a special treat from the past, these simple Banana Peach ‘Mushrooms’. I used to make them occasionally when the children were small, so long ago that Miss 15 cannot even recall them, and they always brought joy then. They did the same now. I hope […]