healthy living is hard

  • Milk matters

    Ever so often I come across health articles that make me think we might be eating or drinking something that could be silently killing us. I’m easily persuaded by the pleas of whole food/health food proponents, and I’m sure the Spouse cringes a little every time I start a sentence with, “Today I read this…

  • It was berry hot…

    Yesterday I decided it might be fun to take the girls to the nearby Fruit and Berry Patch. It probably would have been best if this idea had occurred to me either first thing in the morning or maybe on an altogether cooler day, but sometimes spontaneity works well enough. And, now that we’re forced…

  • The great milk mystery

    Last night we purchased our first gallon of farm-fresh, local milk. I keep running across articles and blogs lately that promote non-homogenized milk, and I thought we should give it a try. Usually when I get an idea of this sort about some change we should make in our grocery shopping rituals, the Spouse rolls…