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Yellow Summer Gazpacho
It feels like ages since I have been able to do any decent cooking. If my children aren’t eating some form of fried, processed pool food (horrors!), they are eating something I can whip up in 10 minutes. What is that, exactly? Let’s just say the Dalai isn’t opposed to serving bowl of cereal [...]
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Raw Chocolate Cashew Milk
If you were about to make my homemade cashew milk, you may just want to start here. Chocolate makes everything taste better, so why deprive yourself? Don’t feel guilty, it has some of the highest sources of magnesium, chromium and zinc you can find. I know you have heard a million times about [...]
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Gluten Free Banana Cake With Peanut Butter Glaze
You would think I’d learn not to buy so many bananas, because I inevitably have 2-3 a week that go brown. One banana freckle sends my kids running. So, I’ll either put them in my freezer, peel and all, until I’m ready to use them. Or, I’ll peel them, break them up, and [...]
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Homemade Cashew Milk
My mom always told me not to assume anything. Like the time 18 year-old Dalai assumed a woman was pregnant and told her congratulations. That didn’t go over well. I still cringe when I think of that one. Today I decided to take her advice. For too long I just assumed everyone knew how [...]
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Brussel Sprout and Kale Salad with Almonds
I was very skeptical. How could raw brussel sprouts be good in a salad? And with kale, no less. A leaf so tough even I can’t kill it in my garden. But a trusted friend told me it was amazing. Epicurious reviews were off the charts. So, I delved in. And delved [...]
I'm Lina Dickinson: mother, wife, writer, friend, food lover, truth seeker and cosmic adventurer. Read a little and you'll see...you are not alone. Welcome! Any questions?
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Four Favorite Things
1. Christine Macdonald, author of PoletoSoul blog and book, Pour Some Sugar on Me: Tales from an Ex-Stripper, never fails to crack me up one moment, and have me thinking about the meaning of life the next. How many ex-strippers/recovering addicts out there are using their crazy past to enlighten others? She just kicked off [...]
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Safe Sunscreen Guide for the Thrifty Shopper
I first wrote about sunscreen safety two years ago, in my article Is Your Sunscreen Safe? In it you can find the most common concerns with todays sprays and lotions which is…chemicals! You know how doctors will sometimes prescribe medicine in “topical” formula because the medicine is easily absorbed by our skin and into [...]
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The Dalai’s Recent Reads…
I have been very remissed in keeping you abreast of some good Dalai reading. Screw the mindless beach book, don’t you all want to hear about someone’s near death experience or a sprit guide’s message spoken through his medium? Now, that is what I call a page turner. Sometime I will create a separate page [...]
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Timing is Everything
(…continued from High Five!) There I was. In an apartment, with three small children, pregnant. This was NOT part of my perfect life…. After I broke the news to my husband, right before going under for oral surgery (which he will never forgive me for), things went back to as normal. It was like I [...]
High Five!
(…continued from The Perfect Family) It was agony waiting for my amniocentesis appointment. Plenty of time to torture myself on the internet. By the time my appointment came, I was armed with all sorts of disturbing information. One thing that kept sticking with me was the hands. Yes, the baby’s hands. Trisomy 18 babies generally [...]
The Perfect Family
(…continued from Back to the Beginning) How the book came to be on my doorstep actually started a year prior. I was pregnant with my fourth when my good friend invited me to a self-help seminar. I was exhausted, living in an apartment with three kids, one of them only 7 months old, [...]