Three high-protein desserts that actually taste good

October 23, 2025
If you're trying to get more protein into your day, desserts might not be the first place you look—but it's certainly a fun way to add protein! Whether you’re trying to keep blood sugar steady, build strength, or just stay fuller longer, protein plays a key role. Here are three high-protein...

Want to know definitions of internet slang?

April 22, 2025
I guarantee that this young girl knows the definition of every bit of internet slang, while I have never had a total primer on this stuff. Yes, I've been forced to...

Regrets, I’ve had a few

April 15, 2025
Does anyone get out of here without regret for the life we wish we'd lived? Or at least regret for something we didn't do? Life really is a series of opportunity...

From soup to nuts, so to speak

April 12, 2025
Here we are again with our fun bloggers, as we dig deeper into spring. Today we've got some sweet stories and also useful info. All good reading. Meryl: The coffee...

What Pearl Harbor teaches us about war

April 7, 2025
I'm a pacifist, a position I came to later in life. I can't say I ever really thought about war during my life, even though, yes, in college during the late 1960s I...

The most effective antidote for stressful times

April 4, 2025
I'll just cut to the chase. We're living in stressful times. Uncharted, even. How are we to handle it and still maintain our equilibrium? It ain't easy. But I've...

How to dance the dance of life in the midst of chaos

March 31, 2025
Seems crazy, doesn't it? To think of dancing anything, including the dance of life, while so much around us is being demolished. When many of us can feel only fear....

Random thoughts and potpourri

March 24, 2025
In and out. We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch. My first thought when I read this was that the...

The day I admitted I was a mindreader

March 20, 2025
When I was a child I could read people's minds. I usually knew what people were thinking. All people who interacted with me. Adults or children. I was a...

How to trust the Universe

March 18, 2025
That's actually a question. Because I don't know how to trust the Universe. I'm not a particularly trusting person. Yep. It's true. I have always been the...

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...

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