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I feel like I am in limbo. So many things to do. What to do first? I’ve been dragging my feet all month, waiting for inspiration. Mostly I’m just recovering from the burden of mental effort and worry expended the past year.
I’m balancing my business checkbook today, something I’ve been putting off for three [...]
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Yesterday my friend Robbie and I went to lunch. Robbie is well known in the community since she has lived here over half a century and is involved with community projects. I arrived first at the restaurant and got us a table. When she walked in she quickly said hello to another diner and then [...]
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Aisle by Aisle, Morsel by Morsel by Sherri Brooks Vinton and Ann Clark Espuelas
Simple rules for making healthier and more delicious food choices
While the book doesn’t cover aisle by aisle in detail, it does cover a lot of ground and can save you an enormous amount of time researching the food chain. It took me [...]
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Organic food is a great idea. Grow food as naturally as possible without toxic chemicals by providing for the health of the soil. The farmers’ market is a great idea. Get fresh, local produce directly from the grower. So what has gotten me so irritated that I’ve written a seven-post series called Screw National Farmers’ [...]
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Our little town of Veneta hosts a farmers’ market on Fridays, and I seldom go because so few farmers participate. I went this past Friday to check out the prices and struck up a conversation with a couple next to me. Turns out they grew the produce on the table that I was considering buying. [...]
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Balance Your Body Chemistry to Prevent Disease and Lose Weight by Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, DAc
Very good introduction to eating alkaline foods for improving health
This book is a simple and well-written explanation for those unfamiliar with the importance of eating a predominantly alkaline diet to maintain a healthy acid/alkaline balance in tissues. If people ate [...]
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Chase was calling me two to four times a week asking for money they know I didn’t have. I would feel my body tighten up whenever the phone rang. As much as I tried to make a game of it, I was still getting stressed by the frequency of calls.
Each time I spoke with them [...]
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I subscribed to Ode Magazine last year because it’s supposed to be an upbeat publication focusing on people and businesses caring about people and the planet. In other words, “upbeat, happy” media.
Soon after I subscribed I started getting invitations via email to renew my subscription. Say what? Then the subscription expired and I was [...]
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Continued from Part IV.
aturday’s Farmers’ Market was packed when I arrived around 11 o’clock. I decided not to risk getting a ticket and parked in the free parking structure a couple blocks away. The market runs from April to mid-November and is open from 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock. The air was warm, the mood [...]
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o I’m looking at this four-pound carcass last night wondering, Where do I start? I have hungry, crying cats and a dull knife. Arthur is crawling up my leg digging his tiny claws into my flesh. Puddy is crawling up the counter a drawer handle at a time.
I locked the cats in the sunroom, [...]
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