Tag Archives: senior living

Spring Has Sprung (Issue 47)

By Freedom Lady | May 2, 2008

About a year and half ago I moved from Atlanta to a little town in a historic district located northeast of Atlanta.
The house had recently been restored; complete with a fenced in backyard, security lights, and a large vacant lot between my house and a neighbor’s. The lot has a white picket fence with an [...]

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To A Louse (Issue 40)

By Freedom Lady | April 15, 2008

I think it was Robert Burns who wrote the poem, To a Louse, in which he said, “oh what good ere would do us to see ourselves as others see us.”
It was a statement prompted by a time he was sitting in church behind a local high society woman, decked out in her jewels, finery, [...]

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Pinto Beans & Cabbage (Issue 35)

By Freedom Lady | April 4, 2008

I moved from Atlanta to a little North Georgia town 18 months ago and realized yesterday I’m spending almost twice the amount I usually spend on groceries.
I cook meals from scratch most every day and am quite nutritionally minded. I decided I needed to rethink my cooking habits. Therefore, last night I soaked a dollar pack [...]

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Mountain Healing & Pottery Making (Issue 34)

By Freedom Lady | April 1, 2008

A few days ago, I took a trip up toward the mountains in Northeast Georgia. 
The scenery was magnificent as we entered White County. The rolling hills and pastures were green and the cattle roamed and grazed on a beautiful spring day. I went back to the old granary in Helen, Georgia, for more stone ground [...]

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Bionic Woman (Issue 6)

By Freedom Lady | January 15, 2008

I recently went for an eye checkup. The conclusion by the optometrist—no eyeglass prescription until I had cataract surgery.
 
Most of my life, I have steered clear of the druggist and the surgeon’s knife. I have an aversion to drugs and going under the knife. Never having any surgery, (except tonsils removed as a teenager), it [...]

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