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Life or bones or thoughts that need immediate thinking exhume me from sleep, unwilling, a pre-dawn deposit on the hard, frozen ground of a January morning. I ma...

Wing It Banana Bran Muffins

To wing it or to follow a recipe, this is the question. When I was growing up in Portland, Oregon in the 1970’s, the fifth of five kids in an under-paid college...

I Kept the Jacket, Like You do Sometimes

Stuff. My stuff, my husband’s stuff, my grown kids’ stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stuff, that we have too much of it, and how that happened, and ...

Sweet potato toast with a lotta ricotta

So I have been wanting to try sweet potato toast (all the cool kids are doing it) and darned if it isn't quite tasty. Find a really big yam or sweet potato, cut...

Thank you Marie Curie

Got the old mammogram this morning. Stopping to thank Marie Curie for her work with radium and radioactivity. Her work lead directly to the prevention possible ...

My Actifit Report Card: March 5 2019

Ok, getting serious about this fitness thing. My honey and I had a quiet evening planned together tonight, the house all to ourselves for once. So we both had t...

My Actifit Report Card: January 16 2019

Fitbit says 10,816. Gotta start carrying my phone at all times. Or perhaps I should wear it as a hat? Has anyone heard when Actifit is going to sync with Fitbit...

My Actifit Report Card: January 15 2019

Missed 10,000 steps today by several hundred, but there is this: I spent two hours on the phone with my oldest friend. Not all that we do for ourselves should b...

Wanting to Try Something New for Dinner Tonight?! ~ #moqueca

I got the urge the other night to be spontaneous and make something I have never made before. I googled some Brazilian recipe dishes and stumbled upon one I had...

My Actifit Report Card: January 11 2019

It was a long hard slog to 10,000 steps today. Long day at work, one employee was needy, one was snarky, lots to do for the family, the usual. But walking helpe...

My Actifit Report Card: January 10 2019

Nice step count today for me! Went to the local rec center with my husband @preparedwombat and my sister @jayna. We’re in Minnesota. It’s cold here, so having a...

My Actifit Report Card: December 22 2018

My first day using Actifit! I’m excited to be here. I have fallen out of the Steemit habit, working on other things in life including fitness. Got about 6500 st...

Does anyone want 300 SP for 3 weeks? No? OK

Was that click bait? Not entirely. Maybe a little bit. A couple of days ago I offered up 300 SP to a new or undervalued Steemit user. And I made it into a littl...

Haunted Bar baby!

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Colorchallenge - ThursdayGreen - Zucchini Jungle

A photo taken from deep down in the green of my strawbale garden, sunlight through the zucchini leaves. photo care of my iPhone...

A Single Seed: Follow Your Energy

https://images.pexels.com/photos/510169/pexels-photo-510169.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&h=650&w=940 Most of us have been heard the worn-out expression of "fo...

Hamster

I am a flawed parent, and if you have kids, so are you. If you haven't done something as a parent that you are profoundly ashamed of, well then you just aren't ...

#ColorChallenge FridayBlue - Lake Country at Night

With another snow storm headed our way in the Twin Cities, I thought I’d share a little ice cold blue this frigid Friday. That last one looks like foam on water...

Breaking The Silence - An Autism Journey - Part 1

Autism is a condition, not a disease. Most don't care. Most others treat people with Autism like shit, like it's the cooties— hey, just being honest. It's rarel...

Siren - Original #fiftywords story

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/08/01/11/45/orange-2564647640.jpg Gemma, coat belted tight against the Wisconsin chill, stops, looking out across the field. ...