One of the things that I try to remind my students (and myself at times!) is that you can practice yoga anywhere (even if you only have 5 free minutes) -- in the check-out line of the supermarket, on a train, in a plane, in the car -- even on the couch. Yes, that's right -- the couch. Look at it as ...

Minoo shared this Salmon and Potato Chowder recipe in the Gilmore Park Church Community Kitchen.  She also shared the following soup tips. homemade stock can be freeze in small batches for convenient use later look for low sodium stock if you are on a low salt diet use vegetable spray on non-stick ...

Ouch! — After promising to “push the reset buttonâ€� on relations with Moscow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to present Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a light-hearted gift at their talks last Friday night to symbolize the Obama administration’s desire for a new be...

  Gene and I were watching Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives a few days ago on Food Network and we were both struck by this dish served at a diner owned by a Polish family.  We both kept trying to get the name of it so I could Google it but the best we could come up with was that it rhymed wi...

Been sleeping better now...although I still need to sit up for a few minutes before getting up. It getting a bit difficult when you need to take a piss...but I found it the best way to deal with my back. Some good news, went to see my chiropractor this afternoon. Things look good, he said that the x...

A lifetime ago I was in the Army. For 5 years, no less. This is often a shock for people who only know me as old, soft, weak, fragile Charlie, but indeed I served my country. Like anyone in the Army, I'd go on field exercises and deployments. When you're "in the field," things get kinda salty. You c...

Filed under: Cell Phones While not nearly as disgusting as finding a Band-Aid or (gag) a human finger in your food, we still understand why Emma Schweiger of Wisconsin was a little perturbed to find an aging Nokia cell phone in her bag of Clancy's Ripple Potato Chips. Schweiger was absentmindedly mu...

Vandaag heb ik de tweede bijeenkomst verzorgd in het kader van thema 3: lesgeven en begeleiden. Deze les heb ik de volgende ondertitel meegegeven: het doel heiligt de middelen. ICT is natuurlijk het middel. En wat het doel is bepaald welke ICT-middelen je in moet zetten. In de les kwamen verschillen...

In a break from my usual “speed bento” lunches that only take about ten minutes to pack, the other week I made more of an effort for Valentine’s Day and made a special lunch for my four-year-old son to take to preschool. You can see his whole classroom’s Valentine bentos lunc...

The above dish was a play on a casserole. I made a small amount of polenta to test a recipe for my ebook, figuring I would use it to make polenta croutons, but an idea came to me for this layered "casserole" instead. I saw a similar dish a week or so on someone's blog, forgive me for not remembering...