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Recipe number two from Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly by Phyllis Pellman Good.
“Hearty Vegetable Soup” appears on on page 131. As usual, I changed the recipe. I didn’t use shortening when I browned the meat, nor did I add the suggested amount of salt. I doubled all of the frozen veggies and added a third […]

Friends and I went to a favorite watering hole last night. We had some interesting discussions, many about where I used to work (where they still do).
Since I’ve left my job, I’ve continued to cycle through regret and relief. Mostly I’ve felt I made the right decision; I chose sanity and integrity over what […]

We bought a new recipe book last night, Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly by Phyllis Pellman Good.
I made the “Slow-Cooked Chili,” on page 176. I amended the recipe some. I added a couple diced carrots and a can of corn and left out the salt (plenty of salt in the chili powder, I figure). The […]

I’m a multitasker. It’s a bad habit. I end up on the phone with a friend and find myself replying to IM chat requests or responding to emails with quick notes.
A recent article in the NY Times underscores the problems with multitasking. Their findings? Multitasking doesn’t improve your productivity. Each interruption costs time to […]

When I was young, I had imaginary friends. Not too unusual, especially for an imaginative kid raised in the sticks.
So I read the headline “Half of adult Brits have imaginary friends” with a great deal of interest. The article is actually about how many people have friends they’ve met over the Internet but whom […]

These are not mine…. I borrowed them from Rowan Bayne’s book Ideas and Evidence. He may have borrowed them in turn. Here they are.

Who hasn’t wanted to do this?

The idea for this mission was submitted by a stranger via email. Agent Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy or a group in red polo shirts and khakis to enter a Target. […]

I commented on an article in a local weekly newspaper several weeks back, intending to post a link to the article once it was transferred to online archives.
I’m sorry–I looked for the link for a few weeks, then forgot totally.
Here’s the story: Crime At Schools Is Keeping Police Busy, by Alan Hodge, published in The […]