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It started with tooth soap, a soft, long thread of creamy material used for brushing teeth typically made from saponified olive and coconut oils, distilled H2O, and Himalayan salt. The idea came from …
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Ramona Jan
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8/9/22
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Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories by Meng Jin (Mariner/Morrow). Faithful readers with good memories (all of us here, surely) will remember a lead review in January, ’20, of Meng …
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George Ernsberger
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8/5/22
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I don’t mean to be a prude, but does everything have to be done in the nude?
I mean, besides the obvious.
I’ll let you decide what constitutes the obvious, but I’m …
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Barry Lewis
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8/5/22
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My fiancee is a man of few words, and instantly when tasting this macaroni and cheese last night he said, “That is a winner, Claire”, which means this is a recipe I need to hold onto.
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Claire Stabbert
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8/5/22
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Welcome to August, hot and humid, just in time to go on vacation. But if you are not lucky enough to be able to go on vacation, you have to deal with this heat everyday at work.
At least …
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Jim Boxberger
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8/5/22
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Most of us are familiar with the canned meat product called Spam. But thanks to a British comedy troupe, the use of the word spam has spread way beyond the kitchen table. Spam has made its mark on …
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Hudson Cooper
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8/5/22
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My grandmother, Lina Dreher, was sixteen when she kept this diary. She worked as a store clerk in the family bakery/ice cream parlor. In this excerpt, she mentions visiting the grave of sibling Em …
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Ramona Jan
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8/2/22
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A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence by Mary Pipher (Bloomsbury). A psychologist (that’s what her Ph.D says), but pretty clearly her real calling from the start was not psychotherapist, …
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George Ernsberger
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7/29/22
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Before the summer ends, I always find myself buying large amounts of peaches, nectarines, and plums. Although wonderful on their own, they taste even better with burrata. I would explain burrata as a …
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Claire Stabbert
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7/29/22
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Last week I wrote about Roundup, with it's active ingredient Glyphosate, and how it is getting into our foodsource.
In a recent independant lab test of popular breakfast cereals, …
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Jim Boxberger
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7/29/22
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If you grew up watching police shows on television you are aware that in almost every episode a dispatcher would broadcast an alert on the radio, “Calling all cars.” Before today’s …
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Hudson Cooper
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7/29/22
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I spoke to two friends and their families about their heart surgeries ~ one who was about to undergo his and the other who was home after his.
That was just a few days ago, …
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June Donohue
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7/29/22
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