Last week, I left home early to experience sunrise. With my camera slung around my neck, a song spontaneously rose to my lips as I walked near the I-5 corridor. The morning unwrapped her sleeping shroud throwing back layers of featherbedding that clung to the lazy Snohomish River. I stood enthralled, singing, and commanding my …
Last night my classmates celebrated our 45th high school reunion. I keep thinking it can’t be true! I would have enjoyed being there had I been in Walla Walla, but I wasn’t. I was on a mountain indulging my photography addiction with two of my favorite people. At 45 years out from high school, I …
Since Samuel, our two-year old smoothie-drinking whirlwind, helped with the fall clean-up in the garden, I couldn’t resist his request for “Memaw’s Poodie.” Being short on fruit, I remembered that our very generous neighbor welcomed us to pick whatever we wanted from his curbside tree. October is prime apple picking season in the Northwest and …
When I started reading on nutrition in January, it was to learn how to eat to improve the skin. There is way more written on this topic than I would have guessed when I started. Yesterday, I got confirmation for what I learned at the library. Bastyr Center for Natural Health offered a great free …
As a girl, I was skinny! People frequently poked fun at how skinny I was. As the decades passed, that skinny girl disappeared. With each passing decade it was like another 10 pounds clung to my ribs! I tried many times to lose weight and did, but when I got done eliminating and resisting and …
Oh wow–I let this blog sit for way too long. Meanwhile we’ve been doing the “I feel skinny coming on” events whipping up Noevir Green Smoothies and getting a lot of attention from friends and associates. I continue to drink my quart of green a day. Mostly my diet is built around the smoothies or …
Debby Sutherland keeps telling me her facebook friends are asking her, “What is Marlee doing?” So here’s what I am doing. 1. In February 2010, I made a Treasure Map and pasted some celebrity’s skinny body on the board with my head glued on top. 2. About the same time I registered for a diet …
I used to hate it when kids called me “skinny!” And trust me, they did! Right along with “string bean” and “jolly green giant.” Lots of green things–that just grow and grow–like I did! Tall and wide! But last Monday night as I was serving up Noevir Green Smoothies to the assembled tasters, “skinny” just …
I love my Vita and her cohort Blendy. In regular speech, that is VitaMix and Blendtec. Today is July–middle of July and it felt like a good day for soup–hot soup! So Vita was up for it. Into the big container went last night’s leftover salad–romaine, cucumber, tomato, and broccoli–probably about 1-2 cups. Then I …
Fluffy is nice for kittens and french toast and frosting, but not for 21st century grandmothers! When you are post-menopausal stuff just sticks in rolls around the middle. Like a car in a mucky ditch, it just doesn’t want to budge. Neither do you. Stairs leave you panting. You wonder if you’re going to die. …