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tim-haywood's picture
Jan.01.2013
"Dad, you're not fat, you're just overweight."-Zoe, my seventeen-year-old daughter January 1, 2013. I slowly awakened, exhaling gratefully. My relief was palpable, and I mumbled a silent oath of gratitude that I hadn't actually attended a Styx concert in my backyard, naked on a blanket while...
sherrie-theriault's picture
Dec.23.2012
  December 23   TRUE VOICE     Some tears pour from my eyes and others from my heart.  What once was a head-game and theory is now heartfelt and real.  I have grown in my compassion, leaving qualification on the curb.  Letters and notice mean so little in the full...
jane-wilson's picture
Dec.13.2012
The unattended bread machine will, however, go on strike.  I threw in the ingredients, pushed the button, and left.  3 hours and 43 minutes later, after I'd been home for awhile, it beeped. My bread didn't rise.  It was dense and lopsided and raw in the center.   I...
annette-dunlea's picture
Dec.11.2012
New Irish Cookery Book: I Love Good Food Title: I Love Good Food Author:  Irish Heart Foundation Format:Paperback Barcode:9781842234877 Published:26 Aug 2011 Publisher:Poolbeg Press Ltd Dimensions:199 x 126mm Product Description Do you love good food? At the Irish Heart Foundation we...
annette-dunlea's picture
Dec.11.2012
Title:Medicinal Cookery: How You Can Benefit From Nature’s Edible Pharmacy Author: Dale Pinnock Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Right Way (21 April 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0716022699 ISBN-13: 978-0716022695 Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.3 x 19.5 cm Dale Pinnock explains how the healing...
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Dec.11.2012
Cookery Books I Love Annette’s List: Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The time-honoured ways are the best – over 700 recipes show you why by Darina Allen The Classic Italian Cookbook by Marcella Hazan Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver The Kitchen Diaries II by Nigel Slater How to Bake...
annette-dunlea's picture
Dec.11.2012
Foodies…Check This Out – Food Bloggers Association The IFBA is a loose gathering of Irish and Irish-based people with one thing in common: food! And eating, tasting, talking, writing, photographing, blogging, Facebooking and Tweeting about it. Kristin and Caroline – set up the IFBA so that...
michael-seidel's picture
Dec.10.2012
Above a certain age, we remember when cars were longer, lower, wider.  Above a certain age, people only knew eleven pro football teams and past another age, they don't remember American football, as it didn't exist.   Above a certain age, we remember red sidewall tires, Tiger Paws, and...
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Dec.09.2012
Angels are remarkable celestial cheerleaders.  It's not just from the heavens that they cheer us on.  Here on earth we are surrounded by their love.  They give us countless reminders that not only do they love us, but their love is just a tiny fraction of how enormously we are loved...
katherine-gregor's picture
Nov.28.2012
Of course, not all the English are like this. "Is this all right, my dear, or is it too much?" The hostess looks in earnest. You stare at the minuscule mound before you, and resist the temptation of lifting your plate to check if there is more food hiding underneath.  You refrain from asking...