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Kitchen Counter Chemistry or, If You Can Mix Salad Dressing, You Can Make Moisturizer

At this time of year, having a good moisturizer is a good thing; here is how to make several for things you probably already have at home.

Step Away From The Sugar Bowl and No One Gets Hurt

You’d be amazed just how much sugar is in prepared foods.

Family-based Healthcare System Reform

This is a photograph of the person who is probably responsible for 90% of her descendants’ deaths over the past 100 years. Our own version of Mrs. O’Leary (minus the cow, the fire and Chicago). This is Elizabeth Briggs-Smith, my mother’s grandmother. For her time, she was prodigious – married at least 3 times that [...]

Loose Ends and Housekeeping

Updates on the chicks, strawberries, et al.

More Obscure Vegetables You Can Learn to Love – Chard

Time to widen your veggie experiences. New vegetable: chard.

Bleeding Money

DIY feminine hygiene protection

Is cheap, confinement raised meat lighting the fuse on the next flu pandemic?

How confinement raised pork is connected to H1N1.

Economic Stress: Don’t be Chicken Little

When you are under stress, the best thing you can do for yourself is to find the things you can control and work on those.

Everything I know about fashion I learned in the barn

When times get tough, keeping up appearances might be the best investment you make. Here’s why.

Wherein Aunt Toby grapples with something a little bit lighter in terms of the economy

Sometimes we are called upon to go above and beyond.

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