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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: September 2009
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Saturday, September 19, 2009. Column: Driven to Distraction on "the" L.A. freeways. September 18, 2009, by Gale Hammond. People in Southern California love their freeways. Ask them how they get to work and they'll say, "Well, I hop onto the 405 but it'll likely be bogged down so I'll take the 5 'til I can grab the 101, then jump down, turn around and …" If you're confused, join the club. I mean, what's up with with our neighbors down south and all the "thes" in L.A? Speaking of "the" freeways. About driv...
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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: November 2009
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Monday, November 30, 2009. Column: Waffling at Breakfast is no laughing matter. If you managed to survive Thanksgiving dinner with your elastic waistband intact, congratulations. And just because you stuffed yourself silly with turkey and all those trimmings doesn't mean that you aren't popping out of bed these chilly mornings ready for a hearty breakfast - which brings me to some tragic news. Break out our actual waffle irons and - egad - mix up our own batter? I mean, what's next? But rest assured that...
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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: Column: Quirky Snow Friends a Fast Track to Fun
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Column: Quirky Snow Friends a Fast Track to Fun. This is the space where I would ordinarily post my column. Unfortunately, the "copy/paste" function of this blog seems to have gone down the tubes. And two days before Christmas means there is no time to re-copy 800 words. Hopefully this is a temporary glitch. However, if you would like to keep up with the latest, just click here:. Http:/ www.morganhilltimes.com/lifestyles/261534-quirky-snow-friends-a-fast-track-to-fun.
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Mushroom City Memoirs: May 2010
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Day ONE is DONE. Today was the first day of our New Adventures with Charlie! Three years ago (almost) I began taking care of Gracie Elizabeth in Long Beach. And now a new chapter. Socks Yep. The shoes were history. Plus lunch, snacks, a book (in case Charlie slept - now THERE is a concept! Plus the usual bring-alongs - Advil and nasal spray for stupid allergies. Ummexcuse me, Mimi? I mean it, Mimi! Oh, yeah. THIS is more like it.zzzzzz. I had a one hour and thirty-five minute nap!
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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: October 2009
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Sunday, October 25, 2009. Column: Warnng: Breakfast may be risky business. Oct 13, 2009 By Gale Hammond. Breakfast: It's the most important meal. Of the day according to some experts. So if you are reading this column while enjoying your morning meal, let me apologize in advance for any sudden urges to heave your breakfast burrito. That's because an alarming food announcement. The Center for Science in the Public Interest". Tomatoes, sprouts and berries. So what are we home cooks to do? Well, it seems th...
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Mushroom City Memoirs: January 2010
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Friday, January 29, 2010. Mimi Monlogues: Charlie: One Month Later! Charlie reached a milestone today. Alyssa and I realized we both had the same thoughts regarding how Charlie's "look" is evolving. We've both decided - independent of one another yet! That when Charlie is sleeping, he is a dead ringer for his mom (and the way SHE looked at Charlie's age). But when he is awake, Charlie is looking a whole lot like his daddy. Now how does he accomplish that? We haven't a clue.but he certainly does. But some...
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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: The Year of Getting in Shape
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010. The Year of Getting in Shape. Mar 2, 2010. Are you as sad as I am that the Winter Olympics are over? I am a physical wreck! And so it was that I, in my (ahem) advancing maturity, declared it time to pummel my physique back into shape. The attempt would be Olympian. Now don't think I haven't tried diets - lots of them. And most of them work, except they work better on other people. Because I have a stubborn streak in me that says, "What? Not eat that piece of pie? So this year I'm...
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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: Column: Das boot: Not my favored fashion statement
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Friday, April 16, 2010. Column: Das boot: Not my favored fashion statement. Apr 14, 2010. Things were going a little too smoothly. I'd joined a swim aerobics class. I was on my way to getting into better shape; to becoming a slightly older Jennifer Aniston. OK, maybe a slightly less militant Jane Fonda. With more padding. Whatever. Until one Saturday morning a few weeks ago when I innocently put my two feet on the floor, and one of them screamed in protest. Yep, that's what bodies do. Heal themselves.
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Mushroom City Memoirs: The Column: Columns-Cooking in the Nude to Lemonade and a Time Machine!
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Sunday, February 21, 2010. Columns-Cooking in the Nude to Lemonade and a Time Machine! Cupid's post-Valentine's Day rescue plan. Feb 19, 2010. You think the economy is hurting? It's the title of a largely unknown recipe book I found the other day at the bottom of a long-forgotten heap of cookbooks in my kitchen. It was time to discard some of the old ones, you see. I've collected cookbooks for years, and frankly I haven't carted out some of the old "go-to" 1970s recipes since approximately the Ca...Major...
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Mushroom City Memoirs: Green Tea and Soy: The "New Latte"
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Sunday, August 21, 2011. Green Tea and Soy: The "New Latte". A month ago today my world, as I knew it, tilted on its axis. In the office of Dr. Jerry Callaway, my physician of 30-plus years, a trap door opened and I clung to the edge, trying to retain my grip. Already diagnosed with high blood pressure in June (another shocker, which wasn't really.not if I'm honest), I'd been given orders by Dr. C. to cut out salt and processed foods. No restaurants. No canned or frozen foods. Too...Handing me a couple o...
