Straight Talk in a Crooked World
Around 1992, a local told me about The Great Piano Drop. If you’re like me, your reaction was just “the what?” But once I heard the story, I understood why it’s legendary. If you’ve ever lived in or around Duvall, this is part of your heritage. In April of 1968, at a farm in Duvall, […]
Read More The Great Piano DropMany of you have read my article on weighted blankets, which is posted on a handful of different websites: https://wildninja.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/weighted-blankets/. In it I discussed the benefits of deep pressure stimulation, a concept pioneered by Dr. Temple Grandin. A product for dogs called Thundershirt is using the same principle to calm anxious canines. Wrapping a dog […]
Read More ThundershirtYou Supporting This – 1 in 133 – It’s a BIG Deal. Those of us with celiac disease and gluten intolerance can become very ill from minute amounts of gluten, the protein in wheat, barley, and rye. Years ago the FDA was tasked with making proper gluten-free labeling a reality. Yet we are still waiting […]
Read More 1 in 133HEEEREE WE ARE! BORN TO BE CHEFS WE MAKE SAUCES OF THE UNIVERSE (duh dun, dun dun, dun dun) Here WE belong Fighting for the rice milk– We have to make prosciutto for you all! In the privacy of my own car and kitchen, I am a rock star. Aren’t you? This culinary take on […]
Read More Kitchen DancingThank you to a friend who watches gluten-related news like a hawk for this article. Melinda Beck of The Wall Street Journal just published this article on gluten sensitivity: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200393522456636.html#articleTabs%3Darticle This article talks about the three distinct kinds of reactions to gluten/wheat, celiac disease, gluten sensitivity, and wheat allergy. Here is an excerpt: A new […]
Read More Gluten SensitivityLike many bloggers, I visit other blogs to read various viewpoints of topics I’m interested in. It never ceases to amaze me just how many people who disagree with a majority viewpoint go off on others without any consideration for individuality. I frequently see, and hear, people attacking others as a group from emotion rather […]
Read More Bashing vs. ReasoningOriginally published 5-5-10 One evening I strolled into the living room just in time to hear the vice president’s name mentioned on the news. Although no one else was in the room, in a silly voice I said, “do you want Dick Cheney?” To my surprise a thundering mass of tails and legs came barreling […]
Read More Do You Want Dick Cheney?This morning in church I happened to sit at the end of a row with many empty seats in the middle. Attendance seemed low due to a concurrent event, so there were a number of available seats. A couple came in and asked if they could squeeze past me to get to the middle of […]
Read More Excuse MeCougar dies at Cougar Mountain Zoo; curator plans memorial. Nashi, the resident cougar of Cougar Mountain Zoo in Issaquah, passed away February 24th. He was 17, which is old for his kind. I was at the zoo the day before New Year’s Eve, and Nashi wouldn’t come out of his lair. It was a very […]
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Truth, Justice, and All-American Allergen-Free Apple Pie 