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It’s funny — when you’re single, sitting at home on a Saturday night is the worst thing you can imagine. And then you become a mom. And you’re always doing doing doing for everyone else. And the idea of having some time to yourself is so fabulous, you don’t care what night it is.
Seth announced [...]

Ugh! I have it, too! After I wrote that post this morning, I took a shower and looked at the backs of my arms. Not as bad as Seth — but I have it!
I knew I used to have it — and I think I used to have it a lot worse. But I still [...]

I’ve been reading Nina Planck’s book, “Real Food: What to Eat and Why”. It’s so good, even though I’m only halfway through, I just ordered a copy for my sister.
I just read the chapter on fish. It was so convincing — we need to be eating fish as often as possible. Weston Price said the [...]

Here is the recipe for the GAPS Almond Bread from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride’s book, “Gut and Psychology Syndrome”.
This bread is really easy to make. Tonight I’m going to make some more to go with the butternut squash soup I’m making — and serve it with butter and roasted bone marrow. Either that or homemade tomato [...]

We are watching “Cranford” — a PBS documentary. This is one of the Emmy-nominated DVDs Seth gets in the mail (he gets a LOT of them) since he is an Emmy award winner. It’s one of those “for your consideration” DVDs.
“Cranford” stars Dame Judi Dench and is based on novels by Dickens and Carlyle contemporary, [...]

I grew up in Texas, and chili is still one of my favorite meals (nachos is number one). Here’s a Texas-style (no beans) chili recipe that is GAPS legal and incorporates organ meats — namely, heart.
It was delicious — and I swear, you can’t taste the heart.
This made just enough for 2 1/2 — a [...]

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato
Sometimes terrible things happen in life that make no sense. No matter how hard we try, we can’t find meaning.
My family has been going through some very tough times lately. But no matter how bad you think things are in your own life, [...]

Chicken livers cooked in duck fat and butter, leftover Avgolemono soup, fermented yams with raw butter, egg omelet with avocado and a tiny bit of lacto-fermented salsa, cod liver oil, butter oil, Lugol’s iodine, and her Biokult probiotic.
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I’m so excited! I just watched the Charlie Rose Show — he was interviewing the director of South Pacific, currently running on Broadway.
I HAVE to see this. I’m not a huge theater person — I can live without Broadway shows most of the time. But I LOVE South Pacific. It’s my favorite musical of all [...]

I’ve had melasma for a few years now. A lot of women get it when they are pregnant but I actually started seeing it on my face in 2004.
From what I’ve been reading (and listening to a lecture by Dr. James Wilson), melasma is caused by adrenal fatigue.
I swear it’s starting to lighten. Ever so [...]