The holidays call for festive beverages to toast the season. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy New Year! Weddings also call for festive beverages to toast the happy couple, the father of the bride, the DJ, and whoever else makes the …
Category: Holidays
Holiday Lessons: #2 The Gifts of Giving and Being Gifted
I’m a list maker. Lists are wonderful little gifts to myself costing nothing except the paper on which I write them and the ink used to pen them. I love making lists before I go grocery shopping so I remember …
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Ten Lessons Sans Carols: #4 The Bright Thing to Do
In the post “Gift #9” I talked about my neighborhood and the curmudgeons who circle around the cul-de-sac. In the interest of fairness, I have to say not everyone here in Pine Bluff Trace is mean. There’s also my neighbor …
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Ten Lessons Sans Carols: #7 Glögg Glug Gluten Free Good (With Frogs)
I’ve been gluten free for five years now and it’s greatly improved my health. I became alcohol free (AF) nearly three years ago and that also has improved my health…and saved my life. Alcohol’s a deadly chemical for me, far …
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Ten Lessons Sans Carols: #8 Gluten Free Food Is Good
When people find out I have celiac disease, they react either with horror or pity, and both stem from the mistaken belief that food free from wheat, barley, rye or oats can’t possibly taste good. “Oh, you poor thing. That’s …
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Holiday Lessons Sans Carols: #10 It Takes A Village
Happy New Year! I hope 2015 is off to a lovely start for you. It is for me, in a low-key sort of way. I really enjoyed the holidays this year, even though the clock rapidly ticked on no repeat, …
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