Tag Archives: senior

Spring Has Sprung (Issue 47)

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)

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)

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)

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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Just Dreaming…Ho Hum (Issue 30)

I’d like to pick up a newspaper with a headline that reads “Government Shrinks, Individual Freedom Returns to its Citizens.”
 
I’d like to return to a time similar to how it was a few years back. Conversely, I’d like to still have all the superior, expedient things we enjoy today that we didn’t have available to [...]

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