FOOD SAFETY EXPLAINED Neither my wife nor I have ever experienced food-borne illnesses. Maybe that is pure luck, or maybe it isn’t. We know people who have gotten sick from bad food and they may have made some preventable mistakes. For instance, my niece got sick after eating cookie dough. It had raw eggs in it and people aren’t …
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GUEST POST from Don – I Want a Car
I WANT A CAR Driving home after dark from Tennessee recently, my wife touched a button on the steering wheel by mistake and exclaimed, “I don’t know what I just told the car to do.” Nothing showed up on the dashboard, but if you change a radio station a light on the dash tells you. Why would …
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GUEST POST from Don – Reversible Dementia
REVERSIBLE DEMENTIA Although never mentioned in articles about “scientific ways to reduce the probability of dementia,” here are some ACTUAL scientific ways…found in weird, unheard of places like the government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Springer.com websites. There is a moderate list of correctable physical issues which can cause dementias or symptoms of dementia. It …
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GUEST POST from Gwen – Finding ‘The One’
FINDING ‘THE ONE’Companion Article to Top Ingredient, GUEST POST from Don, June 1, 2025 As a marriage and family therapist, I have worked with people in relationships whose partners I would deem ‘toxic.’ “One bad apple spoils the whole bunch” is an accurate adage. The outcome of any relationship that includes a toxic individual is …
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GUEST POST from Don – Top Ingredient
TOP INGREDIENT What do most experts say is the top thing necessary for an enduring relationship? Answer: Trust. Here’s where experts fail: They don’t tell couples how to know if trust is possible. So, what should you be looking for in your next boyfriend or girlfriend? EMPATHY. Is he able to see things from her perspective? Is she interested in …
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GUEST POST from Don – Shopping Carts
SHOPPING CARTS I’ve a bit of concern about shopping cart etiquette. Having been a business owner I know the value of maintaining quality equipment. I took care of my tools and experienced over a decade of use with one daily-used hand sprayer. Techs couldn’t seem to keep theirs functioning longer than 2 years. An average well-cared for shopping cart …
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GUEST POST from Don – Wisdom Is Smart
WISDOM IS SMART I admit that sometimes I agree with what others write, perhaps not often. I saw an article by Darius Foroux “Lessons I Learned the Hard Way.” His lessons have been experienced by many and usually lead to failure. It isn’t that his ideas are wrong, they just aren’t terribly right. It is my wish to improve …
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GUEST POST from Don – It Ain’t Meat
IT AIN’T MEAT + The Supreme Court of Switzerland, I believe, recently made a common-sense ruling. If something is NOT meat, then you can’t refer to it as meat. That is false advertising, they said. As a result plant-based proteins sold in that country cannot be called “Soy Chicken.” It isn’t chicken at all. That’s smart. Improbable Burger …
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GUEST POST from Don – Truly Basic
TRULY BASIC No frozen pizza or tater tots. No boxed mac and cheese. No steak or chops. Eating hamburger meals with no wine or alcoholic beverages. Making cookies instead of buying cookies. Canceling cable, and movie apps. No restaurants. No food delivery services. Now we are talking BASIC. No clothing or shoe (or purse) purchases, eliminating name brand phone services, no Uber, no …
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GUEST POST from Don – Gas-lighting (pt III)
GAS-LIGHTING (part III) Hopefully you are getting better at identifying when writers are attempting to gaslight. We have been needled into changing our lifestyles because of “man-made global warming.” We have been told we must buy more efficient cars. We have been told we must “upgrade” to all electric. Tax money has been given to organizations which install …
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