My Own Thoughts

from WeightWatchers Ingredients 4 spray(s) cooking spray, or enough to coat chicken 1 pound(s) uncooked boneless skinless chicken breast(s), four 4 oz pieces 3 oz cooked lean ham, four 3/4 oz slices 3 oz low-fat Swiss cheese, four 3/4 oz slices 1/4 cup(s) all-purpose flour 1/4 cup(s) honey mustard 1/2 cup(s) seasoned bread crumbs, Italian-style [...]

Wonder if I can make it without the green peppers? Holiday Pineapple Cheese Ball Serves 4-5 16 oz cream cheese 2 tbsp chopped green onion 2 tbsp chopped green pepper ¼ c drained, crushed pineapple 2 tsp seasoned salt 2 c chopped pecans Soften cream cheese. Add onion, pepper, pineapple, seasoned salt, and one cup [...]

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. –Hermann Hesse I used to read his stuff all the time. I wonder if that is where [...]

I have not been living with a grateful heart, despite the bounties I have been overwhelmingly blessed with. 100 Things I am thankful for: my husband cell phones the house in A the kitchen of the house in A the chaise lounge my oldest son the fact that he likes the leather coat my youngest [...]

I was going to write “Stressed” as the title, but I’m not generally stressed. I’m just stressed right now. M sold his stock and made $$$. He’ll have enough to pay for 2.5 years of grad school, if they don’t keep upping the price too much. Our house was looked at twice this week, but [...]

Jan. 4: Quadrantid meteor shower peaks This meteor shower reaches its peak in the predawn hours of Jan. 4 for eastern North America. The Quadrantid meteor shower is a very short-lived meteor display, whose peak rates only last several hours. The phase of the moon is a bright waxing gibbous, normally prohibitive for viewing any [...]

Apparently there is someone out there blogging as Seth (perhaps Seth?) who is saying things I should have thought of or am thinking of or am glad to be pointed in the direction of thinking. Here are just a few of the more recent nuggets of wisdom. A friend asked me the other day, “…given [...]

Reason Number 10,541 to homeschool: NYPost: Would it bother you to know that the federal Centers for Disease Control had been shown your daughter’s health records to see how she responded to an STD/teen-pregnancy-prevention program? How about if the federal Department of Education and Department of Labor scrutinized your son’s academic performance to see if [...]