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Archive for July, 2009

July 17, 2009

Organic isn’t a New Concept

I was really surprised to learn recently that organic isn’t actually a new concept — and neither is the idea of healthy eating.  Some of the terminology may be new, but the ideas themselves aren’t.
My mom told me that when her mom — my grandmother – was just married, around World War II time, the military [...]

July 14, 2009

Funding My Retirement with Gold

Though most of my family knows that I am not much of a spend thrift, they often have wondered how I have been able to live such an opulent life in my retirement.  I am always traveling when I want to, eating well, and having a jolly good old time.
But if you look at [...]

July 12, 2009

Why Don’t Some Women Wear Maternity Clothes?

I don’t get why some women don’t wear maternity clothes.  It’s not like maternity clothes are just a bunch of different styles of tent dresses, like they used to be.  There are a lot of attractive styles of maternity dresses, tops, and jeans that look just as stylish (if not more so) as the non-maternity [...]

July 11, 2009

Our First Anniversary

For me and my husband’s first anniversary, we went to a little local hot springs resort here in Colorado.  It wasn’t fancy, and it wasn’t exotic like a Fiji spa, but it was what we could afford at the time, and we enjoyed it.
The resort we stayed at is in a quaint little town in [...]