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WHIDBEY RECIPES | Small changes can add up to a healthy difference
There’s nothing like a good scare to force one to take a good long look at a few…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES | If this is global warming …
Hundreds of flights canceled in and out of major airports, ice and snow still making any travel difficult,…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES | Counting down the days until Christmas
According to my calendar, we are now exactly one week away from Christmas Eve, the last shopping/baking/wrapping/assembling day…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES | My cookie classics for Christmas
One of my earliest memories of what we always called “getting ready for Christmas” is being in my…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES | Dinner will be better without that familiar pair
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and most of us have planned our menu and done the necessary shopping,…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES | Too many cooks in the kitchen
You’re probably familiar with the old saying, “Too many cooks spoil the broth,” which I usually take to…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES | Now we wait, and we watch
Well, it’s finally over. Just when we thought it would never end, wham bam and it was over.…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES: Check back in four years
On the last Friday of October, 2004, four years ago, I wrote the following, as part of a…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES: Model Ts and dear old Dad
One hundred years ago, in October of 1908, Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan was in a close race…
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WHIDBEY RECIPES: Broke, and with the blues?
For years, I heard my father saying “What we need is a good recession, maybe even another Depression.”…