One week after finishing the body cleanse I’m feeling great.  The benefits have exceeded our expectations.   I am fitting into my clothes better,  my daily morning hack, though not entirely gone, is nearly gone,  we are eating less, more healthy and with a lot more discretion.  The chronic ear problems have left and so has [...]

We couldn’t believe we actually did it!  Ten days on a body cleanse.  Wow! We did it, we felt great and the benefits are worth singing to anyone who wants to listen.  My husband and I started with blood pressure in the 150’s; we were desperately trying to avoid medication.  Towards the end of the  [...]

My  husband and I are completing a 10 day body cleanse that has done marvelous things for both of us.  And our daughter joined us to our great delight.  The more the merrier as far as we were concerned and actually the support and encouragement we gave each other benefited each of us.
About 2 months [...]

We made a major move three years ago.  It was really major for us…we had three sales in our home of 3/4 of our furniture, and ‘stuff’ we’d accumulated over the 45 years we’d  been married.  Then we moved out of state and started our communal living lifestyle.  We live 6 months in our part [...]

Chicken marinade was something I’d never used until someone told me that I needed to try this one.  She said to me that if I would try it, I’d never grill or even bake chicken without first marinating in this sauce.  It seasons as well as tenderizes the chicken. 
A few years ago, my husband and [...]

It’s the middle of February and there is candy in abundance,  packaged in red heart boxes…makes me think of the fudge recipe that is in my ‘best ever’ file.  My sister gave me this recipe several years ago.   I’ve made it every December and sometimes in February as well and it continues to beat [...]

I just added to my ‘Best Ever File’ with a chocolate, peanut and pretzel candy that my dad’s wife introduced to me.  And one of the things that makes it a ‘bestever’ recipe is how easy it is.  Before Christmas, she asked me to put it together for her because she has a weak right [...]

There are friends…and then there are friends.  We just spent the morning with a couple that we met the first week of graduate school when we’d moved our family from Iowa to Ohio.  Our children were little and we knew no one.  We picked a church nearby, went to it and after the service, this [...]

I have a file I call ‘Best Winter Day Soups Ever!’   So whether it is a winter blizzard with snow piling up or a cloudy, rainy day in January in nosnow country,  I experience this pull to the kitchen to make a pot of soup.  My husband, now a retired school teacher, a colleague  of [...]

Memory Lane is a street close by and one that I walk frequently.  This afternoon as I meandered down this lane (I wasn’t doing one of my power walks obviously) I thought about our youngest daughter getting lost at 3 years of age within minutes after we moved into married student housing at Ohio State [...]