I love listening to shop talk, to overhear people talking about their work. Their speech is not only rich with the colorful names of tools and processes, but it’s also full of resignation.
I made cake!
I started making a wacky cake, which is a chocolate cake from scratch last weekend, an old favorite from my childhood. My oldest daughter came into the kitchen and asked me if I was making the coffee cake with the raisins, another old favorite called depression cake.
During the past 20 years, Americans have become increasingly aware that their diet plays a significant role for their health. They also have become more disillusioned about the nutritional quality of the foods they are actually eating. Despite of these changes in awareness, most people’s eating habits have largely remained unchanged and the obesity crisis has worsened. These are the findings of a study report issued by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Let’s just get the white electronic elephant out of the room… My husband cannot hook up electronics properly. I am usually the electronics hook up person.
So when we remodeled a year ago, we moved the TV, VCR/DVD player and Wii. I had hooked it up in its previous location and my husband hooked it up in its current location. Everything worked; sort of.
The first Bite of Maple Valley will be from 7-9 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Lake Wilderness Golf Course Clubhouse.
Scaring the living daylights out of people while providing for the hungry in a community doesn’t seem like two ideas which naturally go together.
But its a paradoxical formula of terror and compassion which the Dark Hollow Haunted Forest has successfully used for its annual attraction at the Royal Arch Park in Maple Valley.
Rock ‘n’ More’s vocal class will start Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 7-8 p.m.
As I write this I am chaperoning my daughters and several of their friends at an anime convention in the Bellevue Hilton Hotel. Anime is Japanese cartoons, movies, and drawings, but also includes any “cult” favorite character(I saw Where’s Waldo, the miner in Toy Story 2, a cheerleader from Glee and the phone booth in Dr. Who). Part of the fun of attending such a convention is cos-play, which is dressing up as a favorite character; the costumes range from simple to elaborate.
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center will be featuring “The Fire Inside” at their open mic Saturday Oct. 8.
Last Friday morning as my oldest daughter was leaving for school she told me she didn’t have any clean pants. She was wearing Capri pants and although I noticed, I didn’t think anything of it because of our recent balmy autumn days.
This week’s column is by Ladan Osman, who is originally from Somalia but who now lives in Chicago. I like “Tonight” for the way it looks with clear eyes at one of the rough edges of American life, then greets us with a hopeful wave.
Graphic design artist Arielle Young in her first solo show at Maple Valley Creative Arts Center. Arielle’s dynamic rock concert posters have been on display throughout Maple Valley. Her graphics also show up on screen printed tees – as well as taking on the form of the occasional bumper sticker.
The other night my husband and I were watching the news and there was a sports item about a relief pitcher pitching a record number of outs or something. I don’t really care; what piqued my interested was the term “relief pitcher.” I’d heard the term before, but I was suddenly curious to know what a relief pitcher was. Was it really what it sounded like? Was it really a pitcher who steps in to give relief to the main pitcher?
The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center will be featuring Hank Davis this Saturday, Sept. 24.
Hank is a guitarist, singer, writer and the technical director of The Victory Review.
The Maple Valley Weight Watchers will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Friday at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center.
People have been learning to cook since our ancient ancestors discovered fire, and most of us learn from somebody who knows how. I love this little poem by Daniel Nyikos of Utah, for its contemporary take on accepting directions from an elder, from two elders in this instance.
If you’re a person with a penchant for seasonal decorating, why not fashion the interior of your home with change in mind? By planning ahead, you can make it easy to modify your surroundings to be seasonally- or even holiday-appropriate.
Eating too much salt and too little potassium is not only bad for your health, it may significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
We all hope our children’s lives will be better than our own, and invest in that hope in a variety of ways. Here Michael Ryan of California compares what we can provide for them with what we can’t.
It’s been almost a hundred days since the government released the latest update of its Dietary Guidelines. For the last 30 years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have jointly given their recommendations for healthy eating to the American public – obviously without much success.
