Food

A Change that Saved My Life

by Karen Amster-Young

This is a guest post by Amie Valpone, HHC, AADP and author of The Healthy Apple. She is a Manhattan based Culinary Nutritionist, Personal Chef, Professional Recipe Developer and Food Writer specializing in simple Gluten-Free ‘Clean’ recipes for the home cook. She writes for the Huffington Post, GenConnect and other publications. Her story is intense and inspiring […]

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categoryPosted: 08/27/12 8:45 AM

We are happy to share another entry from our 52 Writers for 52 Weeks outreach. It’s been amazing for us to receive so many guest posts from people all over the country. Susan Boyles is retired from the US Army and a former small business owner. She is an avid cook who now teaches cooking classes […]

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categoryPosted: 06/26/12 9:40 AM

Rise and Shine!

by Pam Godwin

“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early, and it’s not jogging or greeting the day. It’s just that that’s when they make doughnuts.” – Kathy Griffin, comedian Some people are, by nature, early risers: best work done before 9am.  Me – not so much… I am generally not what you would call […]

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categoryPosted: 02/17/11 9:45 PM

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

by Karen Amster-Young

“It’s not you, it’s me…” “You’re giving me the ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ routine? I invented ‘It’s not you, it’s me.’ Nobody tells me it’s them, not me. If it’s anybody, it’s me.” George, Seinfeld It’s over.   I just can’t continue with you on a daily basis – even a weekly basis anymore, at […]

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categoryPosted: 01/20/11 11:33 AM

Simple Pleasures

by Pam Godwin

This past weekend was supposed to be the proverbial trek to Las Vegas with “the girls”. You know, that time-honored getaway that so many “women of a certain age” often go on.  It’s been in the pipeline and on my list of “52” for quite some time, and it would have been the first time […]

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categoryPosted: 10/29/10 10:08 PM

She Made Red Velvet

by Pam Godwin

Do you bake? I don’t, not really. The occasional Tollhouse cookies or birthday cupcakes from a mix, and a key-lime pie a very long time ago, but honestly, I am not much of a baker. I find the mess and the required preciseness of it more stressful than cathartic, although I once read that baking […]

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categoryPosted: 09/23/10 1:35 PM