Have you ever loved an obscure band and then run into a total stranger that loves them, too? And you’re like “No way! I didn’t know anyone from insert random distant point on the map had ever heard of them!” And then you’re friends for life?
My Lil’ Monkey
This morning Katie told me she wants to go to the “monkey store.” I think she means the zoo. We are going to buy a pass this year and wear those monkeys out!
Vacation for the Soul
This week I had a dream. One of my most trusted friends and I were talking about vacations. She told me she knew the perfect spot for Daniel and I. It was somewhere I’d never heard of, so she pulled out a travel photography book and opened it to a specific page. It reads “Forgive. …
Gigipotamus: Exit Strategy
Thought you’d be interested in this update: Never again will that lake outside my window hinder me from my preferred exit on co-op days. This week I bought a pair of almost knee-high wellies from Target. Too bad no one is around at 3am to see how totally fashionable I am crawling out my window!
Daddypotamus: There’s Something Prophetic and Pioneering in all this
Hey, everyone… Daniel here (a.k.a. DanielthePoet – a.k.a. Daddypotamus?). As I began to explain in my last blog post, we’re doing the family blog thing. Originally, we were going to start a third blog for all our family stories. I’d already condensed my DanielthePoet.com blog back into DanielDessinger.com, and Heather and I both sort of …
Spring is in the air! Well, it was.
Spring is was so close I can almost feel green stuff growing! At least that’s what I keep telling myself on this snowy February morning. Not that snowy weather doesn’t have perks, too. Daniel is working from home today. Rather than the usual fifteen minutes I have to cobble together breakfast before he leaves, this …
Our Weekend in Three Quotes
Quote 1: “I said I’m ready to talk about how many chicken bones you got, not how many bodies are in the fridge.” ~ Me to Gigi In the last few years, where we get our food from has changed almost as significantly as what we eat. In many cases, we know the farms that …
Daddy’s Girl
As I sit and type this Daniel is cuddling Katie while she falls asleep. It’s hard to describe how their relationship affects me. At first I mostly noticed how Daniel responded to Katie: his tenderness, compassion, playfulness and protectiveness. Now, what really gets me is her response to him. She trusts him in a way …
BPA Free Tomato Paste!!!
Update! Whole Foods is now carrying Bionaturae BPA-free tomato paste in jars. Woohoo! About six months ago I realized that two of my favorite kitchen staples — organic tomato paste and black olives — contain BPA. As far as I could tell, there was no getting around it . . . The BPA is in …
Guest post: Treating asthma naturally
We all hear stories of how “so-and-so” got off their heart medication, migraine pills or whatever by transitioning to herbal supplements. But are they really true or did some supplement company hire an actor to tell their “story?” Because, ahem, we’ve never seen that before. In this post, my sister-in-law shares how she transitioned from …
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