By Carol McClain: @     carol _mcclain Are you old enough to remember the preparations you made for Easter morning services? I think these traditions should come back. Old Time Preparations. We always got new:   Hats:  How I loved picking out the new hat for the year. Being Catholic, we always wore hats in church, so our new …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain: @    carol     _mcclain Tongue facts: It’s three inches long. Every 10-14 days your taste buds (up to 10K of them) die off and are replaced. God designed taste buds to keep us alive. Sour or bitter may indicate poison. Your tongue print is as unique as your finger print–so don’t lick your crime scene. Your …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain: @   carol   _mcclain   We were going to eat healthy so I bought fresh spinach for smoothies, cooked Brussels sprouts for our veggies, and one night I baked a veggie frittata.  Not wanting to waste leftovers, and being environmentally conscious, I placed leftovers in reusable containers and returned them to the fridge. This …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain: @   carol   _mcclain Thomas Paine’s writings have been echoing through my flu-addled brain. Thinking of our American world of entitlement, the quote, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly,” has especially resonated. As I lay ill in my bed, BBC World videos played on my Neflix account. One especially stirred me. In Nepal, a ten-year-old …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain: @  carol _mcclain No. Not another money-evaporating day. Anniversaries–nowadays monthly as well as yearly–birthdays and Mother’s/Father’s Days and whatever else is invented. (As I write this it’s actually Lincoln’s birthday . Do we have to get him a gift, too?) Valentine’s Day will arrive this Wednesday. A day we celebrate our love and are usually compelled to buy …[ read more ]