I took some pictures from the driver’s seat on my ride to the in-laws and driving around town. They seem better in B&W…except one where I kept a little bit of color. None of this has anything to do with compulsive eating or food but I did take two of these on my way “home” [...]

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I put together a little flash OA greeting card…Enjoy! Happy Holidays – 2008

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Back in the day when I baked for the holidays, I BAKED FOR THE HOLIDAYS! It was a multi-day, multi-recipe all from scratch affair. My two favorite recipes both came from the New York Times American Heritage Cookbook. It’s still published but the date is 1995 so I doubt it’s the same. I got mine [...]

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I was talking with my 16 year old daugther at bedtime. We do this every night. It’s great. She came up with a real gem this evening. Of all the things she wants for christmas (completely secular, hence the lower case), if she could have only one that that would be a Terry’s Chocolate Orange. [...]

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We’re having a little shake-up at work, which means I get a new boss. The old boss, who I like a lot, has his last day on the 19th so we took him to lunch yesterday. I had the closest thing to comfort food a COE can have: meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans with [...]

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“Our evidence from an animal model suggests that bingeing on sugar can act in the brain in ways very similar to drugs of abuse,” lead researcher Bart Hoebel, a professor of psychology at Princeton University, said during a Dec. 4 teleconference. Okay everyone, all together now: Duh! Yes well, this is something WE all knew [...]

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I had a pleasant Thanksgiving. I don’t have a large immediate family and what family there is, isn’t local. We’ll visit some of the extended family over the Christmas break. This year we continued a recent Thanksgiving tradition. For our Thanksgiving meal we went to our local Indian restaurant. Considering the nature of Thanksgiving, one [...]

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