Category Archives: People

Gluten-free Monday: Spa in Review or You Can Do This at Home (?) Episode 3

Posted on January 19, 2015 by missbodie

So, it has been about a month since I did my home cleanse. I do think I feel a lot better, my skin is certainly healthier, my digestion has improved, and I think I am a bit lighter and have … Continue reading →

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Heartlander of the Week: Dreamland

Posted on January 16, 2015 by missbodie

To Martin Luther King, Jr.  The Dream Lives.

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Gluten-free Monday: You Can Do This at Home (?) Episode 2

Posted on January 12, 2015 by missbodie

So, following the “liquid diet” day, I did wake up hungry. The book I was using had multiple full day menus with recipes.   While some of them looked good, since this was a DIY effort, I decided to forge my … Continue reading →

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Gluten-free Monday: You Can Do This at Home (?) Episode I

Posted on January 5, 2015 by missbodie

So, years of gluten intolerance or gluten sensitivity or celiac disease, making lots of dietary and lifestyle changes and feeling so much better physically, and I thought, wow, I’m totally there. I have my life back. But then last fall, … Continue reading →

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Heartlander of the Week: Students of History

Posted on January 2, 2015 by missbodie

This week’s Heartlanders are The White Rose, a student group of subversives at the University of Munich during World War II. They were active from mid-1942 to early 1943 when the ringleaders of the group were executed for distributing leaflets … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2015 by missbodie

New Year’s is a time for New Beginnings. New times, new places, new people, new efforts and new challenges. Time passes from day to day and it can be easy to get lost in the rolling current of day to … Continue reading →

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Heartlander of the Week: Chose Life

Posted on December 19, 2014 by missbodie

This week’s Heartlander is Frankenlouie, the cat born in 1999 in Massachusetts with two merged crania. Predicted to live only a few days, Frankenlouie died earlier this month at the age of fifteen. There are lots of animals with challenges … Continue reading →

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What’s Goin’ On?

Posted on December 10, 2014 by missbodie

So, yesterday marked five days in a row of student protests here in Denver, culminating in a demonstration by a group of students from an all-girl middle school. As Nichelle Nicols knows, sometimes you’re there just so they have to … Continue reading →

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Heartlander of the Week: Merry F-in Christmas

Posted on December 6, 2014 by missbodie

Years ago, a friend of mine went to one of those open gift exchanges where everyone brings a generic gift and then everyone gets to pick a gift unwrap it and then either they keep it or they can swap … Continue reading →

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Thankfulness

Posted on November 27, 2014 by missbodie

In this great big wonderful World, there are many things to be thankful for. And for Americans, that, apparently, varies based on skimming the self-reports of the Facebook Nation, from rainbows (Hawaii and Louisiana) and the ability to love (Washington), … Continue reading →

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