Monthly Archive: March 2009

Mar
09

Time to step on the scale!

This morning I stepped on the scale five times and each time I wrote down a different number on my white board. What, you might ask, was I doing? No, not weighing myself after each Krispy Kreme doughnut… Weighing my garbage and recycling. Ever since reading about the lady who carried all of her trash …

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Mar
08

One of the Fifty Million…

This weekend, I attended a talk by Kip Nash, a Boulder man who has turned many of the front yards in his neighborhood into farm plots as part of the Boulder Community Roots project. If the endless gorgeous seed catalogs, warm weather, and the kohlrabi, sorrel, kale, garlic, onions, garlic chives, and strawberries sprouting in …

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Mar
02

Every hour, every day

grandkids

Approximately 200 people are diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) each week–that’s about one person every hour of every day. In 2001, one of those people was my father-in-law, Dave (pictured here with his wife, my mother-in-law, Patty, and their four grandchildren). After 11 years of on-again, off-again symptoms (very typical for his “course” or type …

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