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WP Asks: What are Five Simple Exercises To Do At Home? | Hinge Health
What are five simple exercises to do at home? View all responses For years I wasn’t doing anything much. I was naturally thin most of my life, until my mid-40s I suppose. Then COVID hit right at the time I… Continue reading
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Cooking Broccoli with Mustard
I’m cleaning out old drafts from this blog and found a draft for broccoli with mustard seeds, which I found (in 2006) from traveling chef Shuna Lydon’s old blog Lucullian Delights. Well, fast forward to 2024 and I found these.… Continue reading
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Elderberry Syrup
The cold and flu season is upon us once again, so I just made a batch of elderberry syrup to give our immune systems a boost, but also because it’s plain delicious and we love it. Elderberries are a good… Continue reading
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Bacon and Contraception? Not the Same Thing
A pro-lifer friend shared his concern with me this morning, asking if we should oppose bacon along with contraceptives, since bacon has been declared a Class 1 Carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. First of all, the… Continue reading
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College and Hypersexualized Kids (Rethinking College 1)
We send our kids to college because we want them to become positive contributors to society. To do that, they need to reach a certain level of maturity in the different areas of their lives, sexuality being only one of… Continue reading
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Vaccination Needs to Remain a Prudential Decision
Do you know how hard it is to be a parent these days? Oh goodness. The multitude of decisions we need to make on a daily basis, ON TOP of just living daily life and deciding what’s for dinner. To… Continue reading
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Cold and Flu Arsenal, 2009
this is for my friend D, whose son is away at college and has had a cough and cold that has his mama worried. i said i’d give her some recommendations of natural remedies, and since i’ve been meaning to… Continue reading
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Oh yay. Lead in vitamins! What’s next?
Survey Data on Lead in Women’s and Children’s Vitamins, from the FDA Continue reading
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Links and a Recipe
Baby Poems over at Martha’s, Yes They’re All Ours! The American Mathematics Competitions MathCounts Latin Spell Checker Catholic Music Network Spirit and Song Why Eating a Big Mac is Cheaper than Eating a Salad Latin Altar Card (pdf file) Altar… Continue reading
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Choosing a Multivitamin
It’s time to re-stock the multi-vitamin shelf! There’s a report I’ve been using for a few years now — I subscribe for 30 days and get my $10 report; I re-subscribe every year. To me it’s worth the $10 to… Continue reading