The beauty about solving the world’s problems is that you don’t have to be rich, famous, or running for president to do so — all these people propound, and often push through, their ideas, which ultimately don’t work any better than what the dog offers. So I’ll toss in my input, especially valuable because I’m [...]
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Empowerment: Making Your Own Bread
June 26th, 2012
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Back in the 1970s, the status symbol for school-aged children who brought their lunch in a brown bag (we did that back then) was Wonderbread. White, squishy, soft, building our little bodies in 12 different ways — combined with bologna it represented the pinnacle of elementary school sophistication and finesse. And of course, my mother, [...]
Quick, Cheap, Simple French Bread Recipe
June 26th, 2012
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Homemade bread doesn’t taste anything like what you’re accustomed to buying in the store — Thank God. If you’ve never made bread before, cut yourself some slack — your first loaves may not be picture perfect, but they’ll more than likely be edible. As with anything, the more you practice — and learn from your [...]
The Genius and Ingenuity in All of Us
January 25th, 2012
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Every time I flush the downstairs toilet, I think affectionately of my Norwegian Artist. It’s not that he’s getting into installation art or anything, it’s that he knows the basics of fixing a toilet, which, while it may not rank with six-pack abs or rippling biceps on the sexiness thermometer, is way up there on [...]
