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5 Tips to Beat the Body Blues
Summertime is peeking around the corner. And you know what that means: swimsuit season. Yes, the season you’ve put off training for all winter long. The season of teeny-tiny, perfectly tanned bikini models. The season of commercials with guys who have 6-packs playing sand volleyball. It’s a rough season for everybody. Throw back to last…
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Emotional Hunger: How to Nourish Your Soul
Our bodies crave nature. Sometimes feeding emotional hunger is as simple as sitting outside on your porch and taking five deep breaths. I bet I don’t even have to define it. I bet – intuitively – you know what I’m talking about when I mention Emotional Hunger and how it differs from Physical Hunger. The…
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What is Hoppiness? The Origin Story of Peas and Hoppiness
Baby blogger Ann back home on the farm, learning about Nitrogen Fertilizer and Crop Rotation in agriculture Peas and Hoppiness. Yes, it’s a food pun. No, it’s not a typo – it’s spelled with an “O.” As in “hops,” like what’s used to brew beer. Peas and Hoppiness started as a brainstorming session of potential…
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3 Big Benefits of Family Dinner
The benefits of having mealtime as a family mealtime extend beyond nutrition, helping you to connect with your children and promote healthy eating habits. Growing up on a farm in Kansas, the dinner table was always a special place for my family. During Sweet Corn Season in the summer, my parents, brother, and I would…
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Hello, world.
Well, here we go. I’ve considered the idea of blogging for several years, but I always talked myself out of it. What would I say? Who would I say it to? I always thought I would be just one more person in the vast span of the Internet. Buuut then I talked to a few people…
Read MoreSelf Portrait
She is stronger than she looks.The grace she so freely gives is her strength – not her weakness. She likes her laugh because it feels contagious.She is always genuine, perhaps to a fault. She feels like a thread in a tapestry, weaving in and out of people’s lives; she touches so many.Beautiful,…
Read MoreCorn Harvest
The field corn that is harvested in the fall isn’t what you eat in the grocery store. This corn has many different fates. Some goes to the ethanol plant a few miles from my parent’s house. There it is fermented and distilled into fuel that’s added to gasoline and powers your car. Some goes to…
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