19,000,000
Of us. There are approximately 19 million people working as federal contractors in the United States. I am one of them, and I’m friends with a few others, too. About half of my colleagues are contractors. When people start talking about slashing budgets in the federal government, we are not the employees anyone thinks of.…
This Particular Dumpster Fire
Whenever I start getting really down about the incoming twinsies (Presidency Trusk) or the fact that Congress is going to be a sea of red or the fact that tariffs are going to make purchasing things I need nearly impossible, I look back. In particular, I think of Depression-era recipes. They can be gloomy. But…
Dondi
It rhymes with Gandhi, and is pronounced like it looks, or, phonetically, like dawn-dee. 🪷 There was a comic strip named Dondi that was syndicated from about 1955 to about 1985. I think my mom saved some of the comics for me from the papers when I was little. It was about a little boy…
a glacial pace
I started seeing a man recently. I shouldn’t say we’re seeing each other; we’ve met twice and it’s more like we’re getting to know each other. On the first date he said that he wanted to take things slowly when we parted ways. I agreed, and he meant it. We’ve hugged four times: when we…
Vanity, oldening
My hands have spread to Large lately, just in the past year. Over all of the widening and spreading and thinning and whatnot over the years I still had small hands, delicate fingers. They’re fleeing now, too: the North Face gloves I got last winter are persnickety to take on and off, at best. Curses…
Who Else Gets Sick From Grass Fed Beef?
So, grass-fed beef is absolutely better for you than conventional beef. Grass-fed beef is much leaner than conventional beef. It’s got higher levels of antioxidants, vitamins, a beneficial fat called CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), and 50% more omega-3s, the super high-quality fats that most of us think about getting from salmon. Grass-fed beef is safer,…
Amazon
Maybe because I’ve had a bit of a cantankerous morning today. Maybe because I’m watching a specifically inflammatory episode of Criminal Minds, one of the ones that gets me really fired up. But whatever it is, I had to spill. I’ve been noodling on this topic for a long time and it’s just really starting…
Cooking Yellow Rice
I pack books while the water boils, my bookshelves now nearly emptied. The move isn’t for a couple of weeks but I’m getting a jump start on the stuff I don’t use. My books I treasure, but I can treasure them secreted away in boxes until we arrive at our new home. I pour probably…
Of Gods and Dragons
This was going to be a start to a story. We’ll see where it goes.
Dementia Sucks. Here’s One Way we can Fight it.
An innovative treatment/prevention has been observed by doctors studying dementia. Here’s a short summary.
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