Food Inc. Part II

I was in dire need of a heating pad and some ibuprofen, quickly, so I headed to Walmart (cringe, but it’s close) and as I am walking out a woman approaches the “greeter” and says, “I’m looking for some carrots, the fresh kind, do you have those”?   To which the greeter replied, “No, we [...]

A Challenge-Recycle Week

So, Susanna, or A Modern Mother,  says that it’s Recycle Week over there in the UK this week coming up June 22-June 28th and she’s challenged me to go along for the ride.  Does this make me even partly Scottish, Susanna, as a blogger participating via a blog relation to a woman who’s married to a [...]

Food Inc.

Will you be watching?????
 

 
And if by some strange reason you have never heard Michael Pollan speak, here is an amazing interview with Bill Moyers (a favorite journalist). 
(Mom, you will have to watch when everyone leaves work, or at my house on Saturday, but of course you have already read Michael Pollan.)
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Elephants, Bears and Cows, Oh My.

So not something you are likely to be stalked by in the forest on the way to Oz? 
These are my three favorite animals.  If you ask me what my three favorite animals are, I will say, Elephants, Bears and Cows.  Why elephants, bears and cows?  No idea.
Elephants are matriarchs and I’m a single mother from [...]

Friday Favorites

My obsessive personality, usually leads me from one area of interest to another, picking up first this hobby, then that.  What has stayed in the last two years is my hope for a future for sustainable food, healthy animals,  a local, organic diet, and most importantly family farms.
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Therefore, I bring you these fantastic finds I [...]

The Heifer Dinner

My how long it has been since I posted.  It was a lovely weekend here with 60 plus degree weather, which meant we were busy busy outside.
The highlight of our weekend was the Heifer Dinner we attended with my parents for their church this Sunday. Everyone brought a dish, for me the More From Magnolia’s, [...]

New Books, Farm List and A Random Thought.

I have an hour for lunch on Friday’s and with not much to do am heading to library on a weekly basis, so you will see the girls and my book pages getting updated on a weekly basis.  You’ll also see that I have started listing the illustrators on the children’s books because so often [...]

What Can We Do To Save Our Favorite Toymakers?

Reading this article,  hits home for me as I have enjoyed quite a bit of success on Etsy and had looked forward to continuing to make some extra money with my children’s beanbags, doll quilts and aprons. I find myself very pitiful that I didn’t post this blog earlier.

To quote the article:
“…in order to comply [...]

What’s Really In The Bathtub?

Right now I am trying to balance two things in my life.  Well, really a heck of a lot more than that, but for this purpose two conflicting issues.
1.  I am a single mother on a meager income, with no hopes for child support.  Therefore, I must live on a tight budget.
2.  As a mother, [...]

My Wish For Peace

If I was given one wish that could be granted today it would be for a peaceful resolution to this Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The pictures are absolutely heartbreaking.  I cannot even begin to fathom the history of hatred and violence and all the wrongs done in this battle, or begin to imagine a peaceful solution that has [...]