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Wordless Wednesday — Earth Day Activities With Kids

April 17, 2012

Earth Day is this Sunday, May 22! Our town was encouraging people to help clean our roads. The library was giving out trash bags and organized their pickup. I definitely wanted to be part of this effort and make it a fun and educational event with Landon. So a few days ago, Landon and I [...]

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The Danger of GMO and Why I Now Only Buy Organic Food

March 19, 2012

I’m suspicious of anything that messes with nature. I have yet so see evidence that we can improve upon what nature provides. I think if you manipulate something that is found in nature, you are asking for trouble. Don’t get me started on the Frankenstein cows they have created that product human breast milk! GMOs [...]

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Wordful Wednesday — Stone Barnes Without Michelle Obama

November 10, 2010

Michelle Obama just visited Stone Barnes in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., a few weeks ago — and we finally also went to check it out. Visiting Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture has been on my Bucket List. Don and I are very interested in healthy and sustainable food production, and Stone Barnes is only [...]

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Traveling to Germany with a Little Boy — Part 2

July 16, 2010

Yesterday, Landon and I took the train to a small town in the country in North Germany where one of my oldest girlfriends lives with her family on a farm. We spend a few nights there every time we visit Germany. Landon always has the best time — he is running around with my godson, [...]

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Raising a Tree Hugger

April 30, 2010

The other day I finally went on a long-overdue walk in my neighborhood. The sun was shining, the birds chirping, I passed two fishermen in their boat… I took a deep breath and was really enjoying myself, thinking that I need to do this more often, when a big diesel truck drove into the street [...]

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Our Kinder, Vegetarian Diet: Week 11

March 27, 2010

After my first post about this, and many inquiries about how things are going, I wanted to finally give you an update on our kinder, more vegetarian diet. We started changing things in our kitchen mostly because Don got sick with some kind of inflammatory illness five months ago, and since he got no diagnosis [...]

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