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“Overwhelmed” Is Not the New Normal
Lately I’ve been wandering through various food, family, and homeschooling Facebook and blog sites, and the word “overwhelmed,” is showing up entirely too much. Like this: “I am homeschooling a five-year-old and I have a toddler and a new baby. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, children, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Education, Encouragement, Family, finances, Food, frugal living, Growth, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, success, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged blog, changes, eating, Facebook, healthy, home schooling, overwhelmed
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Market Manipulation, Roasted Chicken, and You
I don’t know about you, but I get vaguely irritated when I realize that I’m being manipulated. And given the marketing climate in which our society operates, this means that if I don’t watch it, I spend two thirds of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Business, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Food, frugal living, Growth, home, Humor, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, Random, shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged chicken, food, gas, grocery, manipulation, manufacturers, market, shopping
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Recipe: Healthy Kamut® Yeast Rolls
Never heard of Kamut®? It’s an ancient grain, and I give a brief overview of what it is and why we use it in Ancient Wheat — a Potential Alternative to Gluten Free. These rolls involve time — mixing and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Food, frugal living, Growth, health, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Random, Uncategorized
Tagged gluten free, healthy, kamut, recipe, rolls, Wheat, yeast
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Ancient Wheat — a potential alternative to gluten free
Gluten free eating is “popular” these days, although I hesitate using that P word because some people who are truly gluten intolerant (think, Celiac Disease) get offended, and understandably so. But gluten-free is popular in the sense that a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, books, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Food, frugal living, Growth, health, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Random, Uncategorized
Tagged ancient, gluten free, kamut, Wheat, Wheat Belly
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The Economics of Being Cool — and Frugal
Being frugal is chic these days. It’s exhilarating to go to bed knowing that you’re weird and out of step, and then burst into the kitchen the next morning as a dynamic, exciting, creative, green living, Chic woman of power and wisdom! … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Green, Growth, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, shopping, success, Uncategorized
Tagged buy house, economy, frugal, green living, purchase, Realtor, save money
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Flu in Your House? Make FAST, cheap, chicken soup
Recently two members of our household (not me, not yet) succumbed to some sort of tummy ailment that precluded eating, and once they were on the mend and agitating for something more substantial than chamomile tea, I made this soup. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, blogging, children, Current Events, Daily Life, Family, Food, health, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Parenting, Personal, Random, Uncategorized
Tagged cheap, chicken, easy, flu, soup
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Laugh at Life’s Challenges
Cancer, unemployment, chronic pain, financial straits, the general insecurity of our nation’s future — there are a lot of challenges in life, and some of them are around for the long term. Other challenges, seemingly minor, still impact our daily … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, challenges, laugh, problems, unemployment
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Is It Realistic, Following Our Dreams?
This week’s article comes with a visual — the Bold Innocence art print by Steve Henderson that encourages us to Dream Big! “Yeah, well I tried to follow my dreams but I got a big fat nowhere,” somebody told me … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, children, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Growth, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Random, success, Uncategorized
Tagged child, disappointment, dreams, follow, poster
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“Performance Art” in Real Life
The idols are falling left and right. So one day I read that Lance Armstrong, the celebrated tour de France bicyclist, admitted to Oprah that he had been using banned, performance enhancing drugs. Then the next day, there’s more performance … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, celebrities, children, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, grandparenting, Growth, home, homeschooling, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, success, Uncategorized
Tagged Beyonce, celebrities, idol, Lance Armstrong, role model
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