For the last few years, my kitchen has been rather boring—there has been good healthy food, especially when the garden is producing, but very little excitement. That is changing now that I’m studying Fundamentals I: The Basics of Traditional Cooking. The course ebook is appropriately subtitled Make your kitchen healthy one task at a time, […]
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Dreams, Kitchen Adventures, and the Perfect Gift
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 […]
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. […]