Remember when we were teenagers and it was so great when our parents would leave and we’d have the house to ourselves? A part of me is evidently still a teenager, because my husband left early yesterday morning for a week of wonky policy-type stuff in the east, and I’m all atwitter over having the [...]
Entries from November 29th, 2009
Enchanted With What I’ve Already Got, Part I
November 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments · community, lifestyle
Top Ten Tips For Not Gaining Weight Over The Holidays
November 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, simplicity, spirituality & religion
Have I ever mentioned that I once worked as a weight-reduction counselor? Or that the summer I was 18 the Army rejected me because I weighed, embarrassingly, 158-1/2? I cringe at the memory, not because the military and I could ever have been a match made in heaven, but because my overeating was out of [...]
Tags: baking·binges·diet·grace·holidays·monkey-mind·Overeaters Anonymous·overeating·real food·ritual·stewardship·television·weight loss
This And That, Approaching Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, work
I’ve added a delicious new book by Amy Minato to Books I Love, one that would be great to read over the Thanksgiving weekend . . . . at work, the rideshare proposal I’ve been working on for months with many others is finally reaching closure, thank the Goddess . . . . . Green [...]
The Hard Work Of Being A Citizen
November 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · global warming and climate change, politics
Frank Rich’s editorial today on Sarah Palin and her book (he has actually read the whole thing) is a good one. Mr. Rich has convinced me that Ms. Palin’s appeal to American citizens is larger and deeper than her entertainment quotient, which I lightheartedly wrote about earlier in the week. The part of Ms. Palin’s [...]
Tags: citizenship·democracy·Frank Rich·Sarah Palin·victimization
The Right Calling For Sarah Palin
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · entertainment, global warming and climate change, politics
Disclosure: I haven’t read Sarah Palin’s just-released book Going Rogue: An American Life. The context in which I may eventually read it would be standing up, at the Borders on Southwest Morrison, as I wait ten minutes for the light rail to arrive. I think I’ll enjoy it in that context. I see Ms. Palin [...]
