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2- 10- Minutes Method — To Battle Being Overwhelmed with End of the Year Tasks, Goals, Holidays to Dos
Trying out the 2- and 10- minute blocking method and see if that works. The approach is to use either a 2- or 10 minutes block for routine tasks, such as 1. household chores, 2. food prep, and combine with other expansive activities like 3. music making (learning the piano, singing), 4. making art (drawing,…
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Bread Machine for Microbiome Friendly Nutrition for Kids to Eat and Make — Bread (Sourdough, Pumpernickel, 10 Grain) and Yogurt
Yogurt and select types of bread (sourdough,pumpernickel, 10 grain) have become our kids’ stable. We hope by consuming these food they get a microbiome rich diet as the kids’ haven’t developed a palette for kimchi, sauerkraut, or miso yet (we are working on it). Yogurt The bread machine, we use at home, has a yogurt…
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Anti-Aging Cookbook’s Bioactive Matrix, a Framework to use Food as Medicine

I purchased a hard copy of Ginger Hultin’s How to Eat to Beat Disease Cookbook for the seven pages that list food ingredients and if each hits any of the five pillars of anti-aging (DNA repair, regeneration, angiogenesis, microbiome, and inflammation). These tables have become a useful reference whenever I am trying to incorporate a…
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10 Minutes BREAD MACHINE SOURDOUGH W/ French Bread Function
Baking I learned has been great to show that the impossible in within reach. This would be my third attempt at sourdough sinceI have killed the other two sourdough starters by not feeding on time. I have over the last three days worked on THREE sourdough bread loaves and TWO sourdough pasta recipe variations. This…
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Comment on Drawbacks to Blogging (such as Journal Style Writing) by BottledWorder and Repost of: Using Springpad to Manage Ideas/Inspirations for Posts on YOUR BLOG
I’ve recently read a post from one of my favorite bloggers BottledWorder, who dispenses a lot of wonderful insights on writing, on the drawbacks to blogging. Item 4 on the list of five drawbacks is getting used to journal-style recordings and free writing. In brief, the two aspects of this mode of writing are 1)…
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Diwali and Elizabeth Gilbert on Heaven and Hell
This last week marked the celebration of Diwali, The Festival of Lights, for Indians around the world. I am borrowing from The Hunffinton Post, the meaning of the Diwali: “The word Diwali comes from the Sanskrit deepavali, which means a row of lights. The festival of Diwali symbolizes the victory of light over dark, good over evil and knowledge over…
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My Morning Routine, experimenting with image juxtaposition in Polyvore
Morning Routine FRUIT tinted moisturizer 100percentpure.com Face care 100percentpure.com Eye care 100percentpure.com Beauty product 100percentpure.com Beauty product alexandvon.com
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One Month Blogging Anniversary
Today is a holiday so I am going to steal a pocket of time to post (I usually post on the weekends). Why? It is also the one month anniversary of happyconnected. I see an anniversary as a time to reflect. It is an opportunity to give thanks to all the good fortunes that helped…