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Dec.10.2012
This is a short memoir about an expansive life and a woman’s amazing spirit. Linda Christianson was diagnosed with polio in 1948 when she was six months old. Many readers may be too young to remember this highly contagious disease that paralyzed many children until a vaccine became available...
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Feb.16.2011
When I first heard about Kombucha, it was from a friend who told me it was made from fermented mushrooms, a piece of misinformation I promptly passed on to numerous friends and acquaintances.
I later found out that the “mushroom” used to make Kombucha is actually a ball of yeast and bacteria...
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Aug.07.2010
Hey, blog readers, thanks for hanging out with me this week! We’re sitting in our hotel room tonight and John just gave me a thumbs up and said “Good week!” and he’s so right. It’s been quite an experience in many ways, and I’ll never again baste a turkey without thinking of “the oven” (I’m still...
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Aug.05.2010
Serious kudos to the Mayo Clinic.
This place operates with a sort of efficiency I’ve never before experienced. I had three tests scheduled today. One at 7:30, another at 10:30, another at 1:30. That’s a lot of waiting between tests. When I finished my 7:30 test, I went to the area where the 10:30...
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Aug.02.2010
Getting to Rochester, MN was a snap. No delays at all, and I love flying into little airports where you practically have the place to yourself and your baggage is sitting there waiting for you. I love flying, period. Sometimes when I think about the cost of airfare, I think how amazing it is that...
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