I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: teens are God’s way of helping mothers let them go. It’s not that they are bad, it’s just that they aren’t likeable. (more…)
December 3, 2009
November 12, 2009
Greener School Lunches
Mason Jars Replace Boxes, Bottles and Smelly Thermoses
So we’re all trying to live greener and healthier. Then there’s the school lunch. It offers a green-living, food-purist some serious issue.
Even before I endeavored to be green, I had a problem with the school lunch what with the difference between a 100% natural fruit drink, 100% juice and 100% fruit juice and natural flavor versus no artificial flavor. Then there was the question of high fructose corn syrup… and finally, landfills. (more…)
Mason Jars Replace Boxes, Bottles and Smelly Thermoses
So we’re all trying to live greener and healthier. Then there’s the school lunch. It offers a green-living, food-purist some serious issue.
Even before I endeavored to be green, I had a problem with the school lunch what with the difference between a 100% natural fruit drink, 100% juice and 100% fruit juice and natural flavor versus no artificial flavor. Then there was the question of high fructose corn syrup… and finally, landfills. (more…)
April 28, 2009
How Lovely To Be A Woman!
Two things happened this past month that made me re-think being a woman.
One, I watched the local grammar school performance of Bye Bye Birdie.
In one song the main character, 16 year old Kim, sings “How lovely to be a Woman,” in which she glories in her burgeoning figure, the privileges of mascara and high heels and all the perceived goodies of her passage into womanhood.
It ain’t lovely, I thought. Not one bit. You’ll get tired of the constant adjustments women have to make to (more…)
