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Right now, you're wondering what the heck my (very organized) spice cabinet has to do with Donald Trump. I had planned to do lots of cleaning and organizing after the first of the year, like I do every year. Most years, I don't get an awful lot done. Chronic migraine o...

I know it doesn't look like much, but that bit of fungus in the picture is my latest treatment for acute migraine. And it works!

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from high school who is does a lot of botany and agriculture messaged me to ask if I'd ever tried Diamond W...

* As of noon today, Donald Trump is now President of the United States. I'm not happy about this, but there it is.

*  There are, of course, protests of Trump's inauguration. Unfortunately, almost 100 people have been arrested because of violence in D.C.. What the heck?!...

I'm sure you've seen the "Strong Woman" meme. There are hundreds out there. 

 These are just three that I picked at random. The thought of writing this today came up because I heard a young man on a reality TV show talk about the two "strong women" who raised him.

W...

Lagniappe is a South Louisiana term for "a little something extra".  Seeing as how this is Epiphany, the beginning of the Mardi Gras season, I thought it would be a good time to start my Lagniappe posts. These are posts in which I share little snippets of what is going...

My word for 2017 is "Peace". Today I'm thinking about practical ways I can make my life more peaceful.

What is peace? The first definition in the dictionary is, "the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world." Well, that's not really helpf...

Yesterday, our pastor preached a sermon on basic spiritual disciplines, including Bible reading. He included the usual scripture references: Psalm 119:11 and 105, and Romans 10:17. And he encouraged us to make reading the Bible, along with prayer, a daily ritual in our...