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By Carol Zebb
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December 16, 2008
- ’Tis the season to deck the halls, and all around town streets and stores and yards and lawns are blooming with holiday decorations, making the winter darkness bright.
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By Carol Zebb
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December 2, 2008
- Holiday cooking can be stressful, especially when the cook has to cope with special dietary needs. That was the case this Thanksgiving when one of our guests was gluten intolerant. As our company was arriving the day before Thanksgiving, the meal I had planned for that night included a rice dish made with beef broth. After checking labels in the major stores, I purchased a package of beef broth that did not include wheat gluten in its listed ingredients. Being on the careful side, I called the company when I got home to double check and sure enough, though not listed, the broth did contain gluten.
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By Carol Zebb
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November 18, 2008
- Yesterday morning I awoke as usual, a little before six o’clock. I’d had a good night’s sleep and was feeling cheerful. I got up, turned the heat on, started the coffee and then crawled back into bed for a few minutes for my six o’clock news fix.
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By Carol Zebb
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November 4, 2008
- Cookbooks — don’t you love ’em? Even though I don’t cook as elaborately as I did in my younger years, I still enjoy browsing through cookbooks, everything from the slick, beautifully illustrated ones like Martha Stewart’s, to the more humble, but no less interesting, ones put out by organizations as fund-raisers.
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By Carol Zebb
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October 21, 2008
- I am usually an early riser but on these chilly mornings when the sun doesn’t make an appearance until after 6 a.m. it is very tempting to linger beneath the warm covers. Back when I was a kid, beds came in two sizes — single and double. And back in those days, box springs were unheard of. Instead, there was a metal coil thing that sometimes poked through the mattress.
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By Carol Zebb
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October 7, 2008
- Remember the Jim Stafford song from the mid-70s: “I Don’t Like Spiders and Snakes…”? That
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By Carol Zebb
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September 1, 2008
- If you thought with Labor Day over, there is nothing left to celebrate this month, think again. September has a lot going for it.
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By Carol Zebb
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August 19, 2008
- Even though summer weather lingers in Rim Country for several more weeks, there are subtle hints of autumn in the air.
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By Carol Zebb
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August 5, 2008
- A very wise person once said “Change is inevitable.” How true that is!
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By Carol Zebb
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July 15, 2008
- What ever happened to front - or for that matter, back porches?
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