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Losing My Senses…

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The last couple of days, I have learned how important my senses are for the way I operate.

First, I’m too impatient to sit and watch water boil. Nor can I bear to wait (like a good cook) when things bake in the oven.

I have to get back to my other projects. I knew this, but didn’t realize how much I depended on my sense of smell to do my baking until the last few days… when I’ve had a cold from Hades that’s blocked all sense of smell. So, my family has endured a cabin filled with smoke, alarms blaring and scorched meals. All because the 7-year-old escorted the latest variety of “crud” home from the public school system. Continue reading →

It Feels Like Winter

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Cold weather makes me take a moment to think about life. Life is good. This morning, when I got up (from a toasty-warm bed), it was cold in the cabin. Quite a chill hung in the air.

Then my husband got up and said “Want a fire? Are you cold?” and immediately began the wood-burning stove ritual to get a blazing fire roaring.

Life is good. I spent some time with my sister yesterday and she stayed the night. After I finished work, we went to the Amish food store and got an armload of nuts and dried fruits and fresh fall apples. Then, we went to my favorite cheese place — a family owned business in Casey County called Zimmerman’s Homestead Cheese. They make the BEST cheese in the world there. We buy several pounds from them every month. (There’s a reason I say my family is “cheesy,” I suppose.) When we started eating organic, cheese was the thing we missed most — then I found Zimmerman’s. Continue reading →

The Next Step – To Mobilize or Stabilize?

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I’ve hit a wall. I have everything going exactly the way I want it to go with the business. It’s a bit busier than is comfortable — but how many people running their own business wouldn’t jump at the chance to complain about that?

Business is good. (check) My husband is awesome. (check, check) and my daughter has gone from struggling with single syllable words to burning through “chapter books” and novels on a fourth to fifth grade level in the last six months. (check, check, check). Continue reading →

Found a Great Healthy (and Organic) Snack for the Office

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I’ve been doing the natural foods/organic deal for quite a few weeks now. And the hardest thing has been the “snacks” to tuck away near my desk for that 3:00-4:00 p.m. “slump” that I hit.

I think I’ve finally found what will work — a little organic combination of goodies!

I’ve discovered dried Organic (unsulphured, unsweetened) Mango. It’s delicious! I think I like it almost as much as my organic dark chocolate squares and my daily handful of organic almonds or walnuts.

It’s not cheap, and I guess you would have to love mangoes as much as I do (which would be a feat) — but if you are looking for a quick to grab, good-for-you little mid-afternoon pick-me-up — try some dried mango slices.

Simlar to “fruit leather” concepts, but this one is not chopped and “reformed” — it’s just sliced and dried and that’s it.

I got mine at Wild Oats Lexington, Kentucky. But, I’m sure you can order them from anywhere.