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I just finished reading "Don't Throw It Out: Recycle, Renew and Reuse to Make Things Last" by Lori Baird and the Editors of Ya...

I used to hate buying spices for cooking. They were so expensive ($3 and $4 a jar and up), and the jars were too big. Spices have a limited ...

On Saturday, Pipsqueak was in her first horse show... also her first competition. She seemed calm and cool about the whole thing. She rode i...

After many months of traffic delays, detours and driving over pavement in progress, even the Highway Department realizes that patience was r...

Today I got to "play" with a friend. We sat, talked and sipped seltzer for a couple of hours while our kids played in the pool. ...

We went to VINS Nature Center in Quechee , Vermont today. VINS stands for Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences, and they are an educatio...

When we were out for our walk last weekend, I noticed that our field was loaded with ripe blackberries. I thought to myself, "Self, you...