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Breakfast Salad? Are You Kidding Me?
When I read the name of recipe in USA Weekend Magazine the weekend before Mother's Day, my reaction was...breakfast salad? Are you kidding me? But a quick skim of the ingredients showed the recipe met the requirements for our healthy eating checklist: Non-dairy for me...
Top Ten Reasons to Wear a That’s-So-80s Fanny Pack
My dear, dear daughter fixed the clasp on my new black leather fanny pack during our recent Ohio visit. Since our return, I've been prancing down the road, showing off the pack during my morning walk. But on Sunday, I had a conversation with a young woman in our...
Won’t Let the Parade Pass Me By
NPR ran a story about an intriguing concept this morning. The host interviewed Taylor Jones, a 22-year-old who created the website www.dearphotograph.com. Here's what Jones, in an article at www.npr.org says about how the website came about: He came up with the idea...
Yesterday, I Took My Camera
This beautiful spring morning, I decided not to lug my camera along on my walk. "I took it yesterday," I reminded myself. "And what with stopping to take pictures of our town's freshly painted, newly filled swimming pool, two goldfinches playing king-of-the-hill at a...
Non-Dairy Strawberry-Banana Smoothie
How does a person live to the age of fifty-five and not know she has a dairy allergy? If I knew the answer to that question, my allergy would have been diagnosed long ago. Instead, the was confirmed by "a moderately positive response" to a blood test at the Allergy...
Top Ten Things I Love about my iPad
A mere month ago, the phrase "iPad 3" filled my heart with fear and frustration. But now, I am head over heels in iPad <3. How did such an about face happen? This top ten list of things to <3 about an iPad 3 gives you an idea. 10. It's much easier to wrestle...