Author name: judyann dutcher

Learning How to Swim

As a child (age 7-10), I went to the local pool and took swimming lessons through the city. I really didn’t learn how to swim but I learned enough that my mom thought I could be water-safe. I loved the water whether it was the pool or ocean. At age 16, at Huntington Beach, I […]

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Wellness Prescription

I won a basket at an open house raffle event and in the basket was The Wellness Prescription Your Guide to Optimum Health by David H. Rahm, M.D. This is one post that is a book, has to do with fitness and food. The book outlines why as a society we have poor health (over

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Once Upon a Time

ABC’s Once Upon a Time has been a fun fantasy this season’s Sunday nights. It’s based on a premise that fairy tales are real but because of a curse, fairy tale characters have been banished to the real life town of Storybrooke. It first interested me because Jennifer Morrison from House and Gennifer Goodwin from

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Ye Olde 5 Layer Dip

I made Shepherd’s Pie and the kids commented that it reminded them of a 5-layer dip I make (beans, guac, salsa etc for eating with tortilla chips). The Shepherd’s Pie (another Mollie Katzen recipe) had an egg plant mixture topped with mashed potatoes, cheese and paprika. With the layers, the kids equated it to the

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St. Patrick’s Day

We are not Irish. We have never celebrated St. Patrick’s Day before. On Friday there were articles in the newspaper (yes, I still read a printed newspaper) that must have gotten into my subconscious. I was making my grocery list and thought to myself “is there a vegetarian corned beef and cabbage?” I did a

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