Posted on December 14th, 2008 by admin
Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.
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Posted on November 28th, 2008 by admin
Due to constant traveling, I have been homeschooling my son for the last few months. We have gone through different stages where he enjoyed it or didn’t, and I’ve had a few struggles getting him to listen and to actually like doing work, especially math.
My son is seven years old and officially in [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
Unless you work from home, transportation is a necessity. But it need not be expensive.
You don’t need three cars. You probably don’t even need two cars. And you could likely get by with no car at all, especially in the city. If you live in a larger city, you probably have a bus available. [...]
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Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin
This is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely religious, perhaps deranged family, to find out that [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by admin
Ok, I hate writing negative posts, but this is just ridiculous. Tesasteamails is known as a “really good” PTR (paid to read e-mail site). One that actually pays, etc. So I signed up for them, hoping at least to redeem for ads (as you have to do with most of these sites, because many don’t [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2008 by admin
This is a thought-provoking book about how our diet affects our daily life from emotional, physical and spiritual perspectives. I found a lot of myself in Annemarie. She was Dutch but lived in South America for most of her childhood and adolescence. Then she moved to America. She was married to a middle eastern man [...]
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Posted on April 13th, 2008 by admin
I’ve seen that there is a “The New Laurel’s Kitchen” now, but I’m not familiar with it. This is for the original. Having spent time with a vegetarian family (we were provided food, but no meat, and I had to cook), I got a lot of recipes, ideas, and advice from this book. It’s more [...]
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