Part III Put On Your Chef Hat For Tomatoes! Well now that we’ve travelled through the history of how tomatoes came to be such a staple in our pantry, after many trials and travails in Part I-Tomato History and Misconceptions and then we explored how tomatoes can act as medicine in preventing disease in Part II–Tomatoes Are Just What the Doctor […]
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Part II Tomatoes Are Just What the Doctor Ordered! I’m a huge fan of doing everything you can holistically for your health for disease prevention, i.e. manage your stress level, get the right amount of sleep, a balance of resistance and aerobic exercise and finally use the food you consume as your medicine cabinet! This […]
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Part I- Tomato History & Misconceptions There is nothing quite as personally exciting as viewing something you’ve taken for granted your entire life, but now viewing it from a fresh eye perspective. That something for me was the humble tomato: which has just been a jackpot of beautiful, lycopene-rich goodness in Randy and […]
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We have some old Bugs Bunny framed animation cels in our house that I happened to pass recently. This is Warner Brother’s parody of the Tortoise and The Hare Race: You know the story: the hare kept bragging about how fast he was so the tortoise finally had enough of his bravado and […]
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I want you all to imagine your lives having an imagined “pause” button during this time of quarantine: Here’s a pic of my very busy calendar schedule during quarantine (lol), the only real date was the dogs monthly flea and tick medicine reminder: Even if you are out in the workforce, leaving your house everyday, […]
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Just to give you some perspective on pandemic outbreaks in history and how they were handled, this message was adopted in 1939 by the Brits in WWII, just in case Nazi occupation in Europe would turn into a reality in Britain: HOWEVER, the author of The Pandemic Century, Dr. Mark Honigsbaum traced the origin […]
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Quiz for you: Who among us is the most authentic and innocent of all? Give up? OUR CHILDREN! These are two little girls we came across this past month, that are sisters. Big sis is taking care of the little one: They haven’t yet learned to be anything but real with their […]
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Are you one of the millions that has vowed to make working out more of a regular routine in the New Year but you just can’t get yourself “off the couch” so to speak? Are you dreading this promise to yourself? Maybe one of these fits your workout deficits: *Too tough to […]
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This last weekend was the beginning of firearms deer hunting in Missouri. Randy was inspired to put up our flags for this occasion! So I just took a break from the usual business of life to ponder a question that I’ve never really received an answer to: WHAT IS IT ABOUT DEER CAMP […]
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So fall is REALLY here again and our schedules are heating up! I LOVE IT, but it usually is, almost absolutely CRAZY! I’m sure you all have the same fun challenges! My schedule was packed when I worked a full time job and a part-time job at night right out of college (with my husband […]
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