As you may or may not know, I do a lot of cooking from scratch. Not so much because I love to cook but out of necessity due to my wonky immune system. While I am doing much better these days and having less food reactions thanks to the miracles of modern mast cell stabilizing …
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As I'm still in the recovery phase from my overindulgence of the proverbial forbidden fruit (in this case cheesecake is a fruit) I am left trapped inside watching the world go by yet again, unable to do much more than what I absolutely have to do to maintain our little homestead. At least until my …
There's never enough time in the day to get done what needs to get done, let alone what I want to get done, but there's always plenty of time for me to sit and contemplate all of the above! It's raining outside today, which means the weeds will have to wait until tomorrow, if I …
Several years ago I began having what I can only describe as strange daytime visits and vivid, nighttime dreams about my grandpa who had died when I was a little girl. During the day I would sense his presence, hear Irish music playing over and over in my head and more than once the smell …
I love old books! I have a couple of yearbooks from the University of Wisconsin and while I love flipping through them, I'm always reminded of the terrible day I found the KKK proudly displayed within one of them. It was in the one from 1921: I have both it and the one from 1919 …
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