Tweet Several years ago, I sold insurance for the duck, going to business leaders and asking them to sign up. That’s right, Aflac (insert funny comment here about how you know the silly commercials, make the duck sound, etc.) It was a tough job. So tough I quit after a few months. But I did [...]

TweetHouse-Sitting is a lot like baby-sitting, but a lot less involved, and more fun (in my opinion, anyway). I’ve had the opportunity to house-sit twice in the past year, both for rather affluent households (the most recent was a restored 15th century chalet in France). While I felt some pressure (oh God, please don’t let [...]

Tweet The beautiful Natalie gives 10 tips for easy, healthy, yummy foods.  Lose weight, get more and better nutrition, and reduce fat.  This is  a  long video, but worth watching. To check out the book by Seinfeld’s wife about sneaking in healthy foods into your kids’ (and your!) diet look at the amazon links below.

Tweet Is my steak rare, or medium, or well done?  How can you tell without cutting it open and destroying the steak?  Cooking perfect steak is easy with the help of Chef Tips host Jason Hill. Hill explains how to tell when a steak is done by using a simple restaurant method. Now, you’ll always [...]

Tweet 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.  These recipes and tips are just as relevant today, as we deal with layoffs, slow economy, and [...]

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.

TweetDue 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 first [...]

Tweet 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 [...]

Tweet I’m not really feeling the disastrous effects of the “depression” that we’re experiencing.  Yes, things are tight, but for someone like me, they’re always tight.  In the news, I keep seeing all these sob stories about comfortable white people feeling sad because now they can’t afford their laptops, ipods, cellphones, and three cars without [...]

TweetWhen you think of kitchen gadgets, you probably don’t think about scissors. But they are a helpful tool! Most of us probably use scissors to open packaged foods, onion bags, mixes, etc. But you can also use scissors to easily snip herbs, chives, and green onions into small pieces. You can quickly trim greens, grapes, [...]