Monthly Archives: March 2008

Caterpillar: Pest or Saint Patrick’s Day Dinner?

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day everyone! This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives of last year’s St. Patrick’s Day. Conveniently, it helps me in my penance to post every day about a depression-fighting food until the book is available to you. Read on to see that you may very well be able to…

The hunt for depression buster foods at Expo West

Play-Doh Snail: Depression Buster or just Play-Doh?

I do try to bring you the most burning questions here on this blog, particularly as I do penance for a very late book and post about depression buster foods each and every day until the book is available to you. Frederick made a snail out of Play-Doh the other day and it does beg…

More Mom videos: Cooking tips for busy people

At long last, the second generation of “mom cooking videos” are here. We got great encouragement after the string of videos last summer and fall that we bought a decent camera and then proceeded to act like we knew what we were doing with it (much like we pretended with the first). Of course, mom…

Here’s the beef

In my daily penance-like obligation to post about depression buster foods in the run-up to actually having the book available, I would like to take a moment to reflect on one of my favorites: beef. Apparently you shouldn’t buy it from Chino and you probably want to make sure any surface area is cooked real…

Pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water

For those of you who found this website because you are desperately seeking to avoid medication and for those of you who take it to stay stable, it looks like we all may be getting a far bigger dosage of just about all medications from municipal well water. Trace levels of anti-anxiety medication were found…

Counting sheep to fight depression

Keeping my promise to write about a depression buster food every single day until the book is available, I wanted to point out that lamb is a depression buster food. Lamb comes from sheep and sheep have been a topic of amusement between my mom and I. We were traveling to Bakersfield together for my…

“The Book”: When in the heck will it be available?

The emails are increasing as this book moves further from its launch date. I am sorry for the delays. We have had hiccups and are working in absolutely the final stages of production of the book Rebuild from Depression. I still cannot say exactly when it will be available in stores, but what I am…

Mercurial Madness: “Happy Birthday Mercury”

Monday was Mercury’s birthday. I apologize for not publicizing the birthday in advance but its birthday was only determined Monday morning. My son Frederick loves birthdays and is into astronomy lately. We were learning about the sun’s age – when it was born, when it will blow up and turn into a nebula, and all…

Maybe I can’t clear five acres all by myself

I finally came to my sense on the big brush-clearing project I began about a year ago: I hired help in the form of two teenage cowboys. They can get a whole lot more done than an out-of-shape 39-year-old who spends her weeks exercising her fingers in front of the computer. They have helped two…