I’m terrible at remembering anniversaries; I often float through my days on a cloud of my own imaginings, unaware of the exact date. Sometimes I don’t even know the month. I consider this one of the benefits of being an “Indie girl.” My time is mostly my own. 5 Days ago, I was challenged on …
This is part of the series: an alphabet of help for living well, despite everything. A knowledge of Kinesiology helps us live healthier lives. Everything we do–including lounging on the sofa while watching a movie, including sleeping–because we are embodied beings, everything we do is physical. Even a primarily intellectual activity like reading involves our hands, our …
Here’s where to watch baseball–the Great American Pastime–in New England: Major League Baseball We all should see the Boston Red Sox play at Fenway, at least once, shouldn’t we? Minor League Baseball Maine Portland Sea Dogs (A A for Boston Red Sox) Hadlock Field Burlington Vermont Lake Monsters (A for Oakland A’s) Centennial Field Manchester New Hampshire …
A Handy Guide to All the Baseball Teams and Parks in New England by Location and League Read More »
I picked up these beautiful golden beets from Blue Sky Farm at the Pawtuxet Village Farmer’s Market, and decided to make roasted beet salad. Since it’s hot out (it’s summer! yea!!!) I roast the beets in the crockpot, because turning on the oven would heat up the kitchen. Golden beets are a tad sweeter, not quite as …
The following post was published on the Rose Hall Media tips for writers site: (re-blogged with permission) Bob Mayer says that 99% of the advice you’re hearing about writing and publishing comes from 1% of authors. His blog post explores the question: “So how much of that advice actually applies and is it useful?” We agree with …
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I want your honest opinion about truth and lies in blogging. I’ve been writing an alphabetic, upbeat, happy, yes-you-can series about living well, despite everything, but perhaps I’m unintentionally misrepresenting something. If, on this blog, I never write about my fibromyalgia, am I a liar? As a fellow fibro-blogger, Cait Gordon, accurately describes: It’s very difficult to explain Fibro to people …
If I don't tell the truth about how fibromyalgia feels, am I a liar? Read More »
This is part of a series of an alphabet of help for living well, despite everything: J is for Just-Do-It! Stop procrastinating. Just do it, RIGHT NOW! What have you been putting off?
Tabouli. Just saying it makes me want to sing–Ta-BOOL-ool-ool-li. This summer, I’ve been going rhapsodic on a theme of Tabouli. This dish feeds my creative need to compose–to augment, ornament, substitute and transpose. Beat-the-heat bonus: you can make it in the morning while the kitchen is cool and serve it later (that evening or the next day) right from the refrigerator. …
This is part of a series of an alphabet of help for living well, despite everything: I is for Innovation. There will always be at least one apparently valid excuse, and a dozen more rationalizations, in defense of why it just isn’t possible to do what I want to do, ought to do, or hope to do. …
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Cussing in print media has become a habitual and dumpy old hat, and it’s time to change the fashion. Thank you to my blogger friend Jenny, for addressing this. And thank you to all writers who refuse the lazy, cliché option. If you consider yourself a writer, use words, please, not crass interjections.