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Simple Soft Vegan Polenta

April 30, 2013

  Polenta is a lot like great tasting silly putty or play dough. If you leave it to sit and cool, it will harden and hold a shape. That’s why so many plant-based cooks like to use it as a gluten-free substitute for pizza crust, lasagna noodles, or bread. I first learned to cook it [...]

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On Pointe

January 21, 2013

  A dear e-mail friend of mine who lives near NYC loves the ballet passionately. In early December she kindly sent me a link to a slide show of Henry Leutwyler photos of the New York City Ballet on the Vanity Fair web site.  As I perused the photos, sitting in my pajamas at the computer, [...]

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Window, Tree, Sky

January 12, 2013

For the last 17 years, I have rarely traveled far from home. One notable exception to that occurred in the summer of 2001 when I flew to Albuquerque for an Integrative Manual Therapy Intensive at the Desert Light Clinic. My friend Fran had generously offered to go with me; she and her husband donated many [...]

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I Want To Live

December 12, 2012

Sometimes you don’t know something until you say it out loud. And sometimes you don’t know you’re going to say it out loud until you hear yourself saying it. In a leadership workshop a friend once took, she told me she learned of different thinking-through-conversation styles. One was to not plan at all, just talk [...]

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The Spirit of Thanksgiving Past

November 15, 2012

This Wednesday evening my loved ones will pull into my driveway for the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of the long day trip from Portland. The dog will run to the back door with his ears at attention, and I will wipe my hands on my apron or jump up from the computer screen and [...]

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