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A intense dialogue overheard on the Upper West Side
Outside a local elementary school, a very tall father and a very little boy, maybe four years old, were engaged in an exchange. The little boy was objecting passionately to moving onward because someone or something which he expected to … Continue reading
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What’s a more extreme term than schadenfreude?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Thousands of anti-abortion protesters who attended the National March for Life rally and concert this January may have been exposed to measles.
Posted in Journalism, MAGA, Medical care in the US, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, War on women
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So what are “ancient grains”?
Don’t know if you were as puzzled as I was when I noticed a loaf of bread I’d unwittingly paid too much money for contained “ancient grains.” Yesterday, when I had a lovely BLT at the Green Kitchen (est’d 1931) … Continue reading
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Tagged amaranth, ancient grains, einkorn, emmer, Kamut, oatmeal, Perplexity, sorghum, spelt, teff
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