Recipe: Oatmeal Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits Do you love your four-footed traveling companions? These dog biscuits are made of oatmeal and peanut butter, which are both great for skin and coat. They are SO EASY to make, but kiss your oven goodbye for several hours. 2 cups whole wheat flour (you can use another type…
DetailsCoffee Art I A neighbor gave me a framed print of some coffee art similar to this one (linked to its Art.com page). It was a very thoughtful gift considering that my name is Java and I’m known for having coffee at my side at all times. Another awesome gift I got once was a…
Details62 and Awesome! Yesterday was my 62nd birthday, and I DO make 62 look good! Except for the part where I bought a birthday cake just for me, and I’ve been eating it until I got sugar overload, making me almost fly off the floor and into the air. Make sure that your next birthday…
DetailsStarts Monday, Feb 1! FREE Feb 1-5: On Becoming a Dinosaur: A Typesetter Speaks! A young (and stunning!) woman apprenticed as a typesetter in New Jersey, eventually moving to Philadelphia for more opportunities. Desktop publishing kills the typesetter occupation, and our heroine must figure out a way to more into a new profession. That young…
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Thanks to my husband and our new snow blower, we’re dug out of the big snow dump. I hope all of you are in good shape, too, wherever you are and whatever your weather.
Movie Review: Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch, dir.) Ninotchka, available on Amazon.com I’m a huge fan of classic movies, and every so often, I get the urge to share. In the days when the Communist government had its tightest stranglehold in Russia, three Russian emissaries had been sent to Paris, and apparently, they were spending money…
DetailsJust wanted to share this article about airport tips from Travel + Leisure magazine.
Travel + Leisure Airport Tips
9 Cents You should all be asking yourselves: “Why are we reading about 9 cents?” The answer is incredibly, amazingly, astonishingly simple. I got my monthly payout from Amazon/CreateSpace, Amazon’s print-on-demand subsidiary. They electronically deposited my 9 cents directly into my bank account. Not only that, but it takes 2 to 5 days for the…
DetailsGum I’ll tell you something that both bothers and astonishes me. It’s going to the candy aisle in the supermarket and seeing so many brands and flavors of gum that I can’t count them all. Obviously, there must be a market for all this gum, and for all these varieties. I wish that all that…
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