It’s nearly noon but dark and quiet, with a cool rain falling outside.  C&D have been inspired to work on a project involving dozens of pictures cut from coloring sheets, workbooks, stickers (which have been applied to scrap pieces of paper, and then cut around) and coloring books.   Bits of paper, glue, scissors, and crayons [...]

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Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn Those who think they’re unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman. (Found on MeMo this morning.) (I really like parentheses. After we moved our main machine to Ubuntu, a Linux OS, I’ve had trouble with blog logistics. Recently [...]

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That’s what I call it, this neighborhood of ours, only slightly tongue in cheek.  Universities, libraries, parks, museums, grocery stores, cozy cafes, green boulevards and our favorite restaurants are all just a hop, skip, or jump away.  Our walk score is 86; needing groceries doesn’t necessarily mean we need to bother pulling the car out [...]

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Are you busy?  I’m busy, too.  I just made crackers for the dehydrator, and then fruit smoothies for Carmen and David.  Now I have a big mess to clean. While I watched the juicer smoosh mango, blueberries, and everything else I dropped down into its plastic chute, I strained my ears to hear the radio [...]

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Just noticed that the EWG published this past March a new ranking for pesticides in 47 of America’s most common fruits and vegetables. Avocados and onion rank at the bottom of the list (for having the lowest pesticide load).  That’s not to say it’s not a good thing to buy organic avos, or onions, or [...]

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Today, ten years of marriage, celebrated with pancakes for breakfast and a trip to our favorite beach in the late afternoon.  We didn’t do much, mostly just standing in the water or sitting in the sand talking while Carmen and David dug in the sand and ran around us like satellites.  For a while we [...]

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In August I wrote that one reason to eat organic is that the produce grown organically has been shown richer in nutrients than produce grown conventionally.  Last month Time picked up on the idea after a journal article suggested that in the past five decades the nutrient level of our conventional fruits and veggies has [...]

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