Donating blood to the Red Cross
I’m a regular blood donor. I like to talk it over with people. When we donate, sometimes the Red Cross gives us tee shirts with their logo on it, and […]
March to Destiny, Civil War Reenactment
Shippensburg is rich in history. It was the frontier during the 1750’s. But it also had some activity during the Civil War. The town’s annual commemoration of our Civil War […]
Grandma’s Gourds
My friend Marcia makes bird houses from big gourds. Sometimes she buys them ready to use, sometimes she has to clean them out first, and sometimes she grows some herself. […]
The lethality of the absence of hope
I usually write light, airy blog entries, mostly about my wonderful assistant/cat or my jewelry business, SarasinArt. This isn’t one of those entries. I heard a term: The Lethality of the Absence of […]
Working in mental health services
For almost 20 years I have worked with people with mental health issues. I work for a benevolent agency which seems like family, and I always say it is a […]
Local History in Shippensburg
We have a rich history here. In the 1700’s this area was the frontier for wealthy people and not so wealthy ones from Philadelphia coming to the west to seek […]
A new diet for diabetes!
OK, so it wasn’t a carb sensitivity. It was diabetes. Things we eat turn to glucose in our systems, which is processed thru the liver and is the energy that […]
My Assistant and I have Spring Fever
It’s a gorgeous day, and a holiday for us at work, so I took the afternoon off. Came home and opened windows to let the fresh air in. Went out […]
Why not plant potatoes?
So I like to do a little gardening. Not a lot, I’m getting older, just enough to have some fun. Always tomatoes, which I don’t like raw, but like them […]
A new diet……and black rice!
Having had a blood test that showed my blood sugar to have been high for 3 months, I had to make some changes. Now in a while I’ll go to […]
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