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How To Make Chip Dip
Sometime in the past couple months, Chive was out visiting with someone, and they served chips and dip. Store dip. We don't buy the stuff ourselves - it's glutenous. I don't think he'd ever tried it...
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St. Patrick's Day 2011
We're feeling that St. Patrick is perhaps not pulling his weight in the weather department. It's his Big Day, and we're barely inching up to 0C during the day, considerably colder than that at night....
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Pratchett on Friday
"The wind howled. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills....The storm was really giving it everything...
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Recently someone was telling me about the local elementary school system, and how there's a reading program in place. The children are filed into the library, given "age-appropriate" books, told to...
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I have this vice, which I believe I've confessed to before, but it's this: I stalk Quiverfull Websites. I reckon it's akin to chasing ambulances for the thrill of seeing a car-wreck (though that's not...
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As people who have hearts that long for perfect love, we have to forgive one another for not being able to give or receive that perfect love in our everyday lives. Our many needs constantly interfere...
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On my bookshelf...
Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.I lurrrvv Terry Pratchett! He's the one who takes me away, puts me in another world, where it's all silly and magic, and yet... more like the world I live in than the...
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April Is Developmentally Delayed
Mid-April, and this is what I see from my back door. Is it any wonder I'm not overcome with gardening inspiration? We had a few warmish days last week, enough to melt it back this far, but this week...
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End of the Tunnel
It's been quite a while.Since last April, I went to a private acupuncture college for eight months beginning in September. What a disaster. The school was a joke, a calamity, and a byword all rolled...
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Quilt Story
It was near this time last year that I finished this quilt. Ages and ages and ages ago. I was in the midst of whatever I was in the midst of, thinking this was going to be the last baby quilt of the...
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Holy Bees
Summer is usually my not-dreaming time. I have two theories about that. The first is that fall-winter-spring are much darker times here in the north, and create a quieter canvas for the mind to write...
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So I picked up my messages off the phone last night, and there was one from an insurance agent in my Dear Relative's town, informing me that I need to "make a decision" concerning a policy that names...
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Pork Futures
...Wizards mostly lived in universities down in the big cities and weren't allowed to get married, although the reason why not totally escaped Tifffany. Anyway, you hardly ever saw them around...
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Myth-Busting in the Garden
I grew up in an area up north with higher fertility than the one I presently live in. Half an hour to the west of us, things grow much more readily too, but right here it takes a bit more doing. This...
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Fear NOT!
Ain't easy, bein' mortal.I've got several patients dealing with cancer right now, of various types in various stages. Lung, breast, prostate, bone... It's an education. I'm learning about standard...
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Just Back Up The Truck
I've decided that what I really want in life is everything.I want to live in the country, and I want to be in the city. I want a practice that serves rural needs, and I want exposure to the wider...
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I've been wanting to make my own laundry soap, but all the recipes call for "washing soda", which is rarer than hens' teeth in my part of the world.But then, this! I found this instruction on how to...
View ArticleThe Bigger Picture
As the kids got older, they resisted more and more having their pictures taken. And they certainly don't want them on a blog.But tonight I wish I could take a picture. I'm pretty proud.Mostly because...
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The last few days I've been thinking often of Jim. He meant a lot to me. Maybe he hooked into my sense of archetype. I certainly never thought it while he was alive, that he meant more to me than just...
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And may I say, first of all, that I'm far from enchanted with Blogger's new publishing format. I rarely come here anymore. Maybe I have no right to complain, but for the love of the crows! Do I want to...
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Good energy, intentions, vibes, prayers - anything you care to send my way. Please.
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Confessions of a massage therapist:I have a client, a lovely lady. I have more than one client but I'm talking about this one today.She has this GREAT BIG HUGE ENORMOUS ANCIENT BLACKHEAD on her back....
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