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Grey hair: Does it stay or does it go?
I’ve gone a relatively long time without cavities or grey hair. Sadly my long reigning glory of going without dental work came to an abrupt end this week the exact same time I spotted four ugly, wiry,...
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The Fabulous Vegetarian Breakfast Burrito
On the whole, breakfasts are my most challenging meal. I’m often not hungry and I’m sick of all almost all combinations of eggs. Until I discovered the scrumptious breakfast burrito! You can do this...
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Poem of the Week: A Time Past by Denise Levertov
The old wooden steps to the front door where I was sitting that fall morning when you came downstairs, just awake, and my joy at sight of you (emerging into golden day - the dew almost frost) pulled me...
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Saving Your Relationship One Room At A Time
It’s funny. I’ve always thought I was the easiest person to live with. Ever. I’m fun loving, easy-going, laid back, love to watch a good game of hockey – this is what I posted on my Lava Life profile...
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Eagle (Galiano Island)
We saw this fellow on Galiano Island on our recent trip there. Lots of eagle viewings there but this guy sat here for quite awhile and allowed my sister-in-law to take lots of great shots. This is one...
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Scentuals –“Naked”– Best things happen just by accident
You guys are all probably thinking I’m writing about something quite naughty here, aren’t you? In fact, I’m writing about one of my not-so secret obsessions – skin cream, hand cream, lotions, potions,...
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Riding Out at Evening – by Linda McCarriston – Poem of the Week via the...
At dusk, everything blurs and softens.From here out over the long valley,the fields and hills pull upthe first slight sheets of evening,as, over the next hour,heavier, darker ones will follow....
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Kale and Butternut Squash Soup – vegetarian, gluten-free
Oh my. This is so good. So good. Did I say good? Yes, it’s delicious. I am having a love affair with kale this year which is likely one of the reasons I love this so much. Anyways, it’s easy …...
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Poem of the Week – Great Things Have Happened by Alden Nowlan via Alison McGhee
We were talking about the great thingsthat have happened in our lifetimes;and I said, “Oh, I suppose the moon landingwas the greatest thing that has happenedin my time.” But, of course, we were all...
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Bigger than a postcard fiction – The Single Bed
Belle lay in bed listening to the rain. It was winter and the rain had been falling for 10 straight days. Boots, her cat was firmly ensconced between her legs and it felt comfortable in that “I don’t...
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Become a Climate Change Geek with the Tyee’s Crash Course & Geek Quizz
Vancouver’s The Tyee has published an 8 part series on Climate Change written by Eric Nadal – after reading the 8 short pieces readers are invited to take the Climate Change Geek Quizz in which you...
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The Fabulous Vegetarian Breakfast Burrito
On the whole, breakfasts are my most challenging meal. I’m often not hungry and I’m sick of all almost all combinations of eggs. Until I discovered the scrumptious breakfast burrito! You can do this...
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Poem of the Week: Hope by Czeslaw Milosz
Hope is with you when you believethe earth is not a dream but living flesh,that sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,that all things you have ever seen hereare like a garden looked at from a gate....
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Poem of the Week: If Found, Drop In Any Mail Box. Owner Will Pay Postage by...
(via Alison McGhee) I’m grading papers in the motel room,the teacher in me watching as my studentsfumble with their keys in the lock of the world. I crack down on the one who misspellsthe minuet amount...
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Poem of the Week, by Fady Joudah – Mimesis
My daughterwouldn’t hurt a spiderthat had nestedbetween her bicycle handlesfor two weeksShe waiteduntil it left of its own accord If you tear down the web I saidit will simply knowthis isn’t a place...
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Poem of the Week: Pleasantville by Ellen Bass (via Alison McGhee)
Pleasantville, New Jersey, 1955– Ellen Bass I’d never seen a rainbow or pickeda tomato off the vine. Never walked in an orchardor a forest. The only tree I knewgrew in the square of dirt hackedout of...
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Saving Your Relationship One Room At A Time
It’s funny. I’ve always thought I was the easiest person to live with. Ever. I’m fun loving, easy-going, laid back, love to watch a good game of hockey – this is what I posted on my Lava Life profile...
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Eagle (Galiano Island)
We saw this fellow on Galiano Island on our recent trip there. Lots of eagle viewings there but this guy sat here for quite awhile and allowed my sister-in-law to take lots of great shots. This is one...
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