Monthly Archives: August 2007

If You Kill It, You Eat It

Three-week-old chicks have very little meat and their hearts are about the size of a dime. I learned that today when I dressed out poultry for the first time ever to teach my son an important life lesson about being an “ethical” omnivore. You may have read my rule here on the blog before, back…

Food Allergies: How To Know If You’ve Got Them

Food allergies can at least aggravate depression. I some people they can be the primary cause. Increasingly, people are finding out that they are sensitive to gluten, a component of wheat and some other related grains. In fact, I find that my body gets a bit puffy from wheat. I do not have serious gluten…

One of 1135 Women Breastfeeding Simultaneously

It was just five years ago that a large group of women and I made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. We had some help from our babies. I was one of 1,135 women breastfeeding simultaneously during World Breastfeeding Week in 2002. It was a huge stretch for me to attend the event…