While trying to walk out of a discount store a few minutes ago, a crowd had formed at the door and several employees and the security/off-duty police were arresting a shoplifter.  If confronted with this and you had your children with you would you rush out of the store the other direction to avoid them seeing something like that? Or would you let your children watch and discuss things after?

First, McCain's campaign has said that Palin won't speak to the Press:

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She is also the only one of the four absent from the Sunday A.M. political show line up this weekend.

Palin insists that she could take on foreign leaders but is too scared to show up for questions from the Press?

Doesn't sound very gutsy to me.

Consider this either a public service announcement or a warning siren. You see, two years ago just about now, I was obsessed, completely, with learning all the tips and tricks for slow-roasting tomatoes. All the recipes suggested roasting tomatoes for an hour. Me, over 17 batches of slow-roasted tomatoes, I kept stretching and stretching the oven time until finally settling on the 'sweet spot' for slow-roasted tomatoes roasted for ...

Okay, real quick everybody, what’s the golden rule? No cheating, looking it up onlineand what not, what is it?

Authenticity—the absence of anything artificial, no preservatives or additives or illusions. Genuine through and through. “Organic,” the greenies would say. In life and literature, perfect correspondence between speech and action, taken as the measure of their correspondence with conscience and belief. From the inside out, certainty that speech and action correspond perfectly with morals, ethics, and values.

Algae Fuel our New "Green Industrial Revolution"!

Algae, the Emeralds of Bio Fuels

We all know from time to time our dear hubbys can, well, get themselves into trouble. 

A little verbal diahrea or an odd philosphical observation isn't so bad, but what happens when he does or says something that you think or feel is wrong?  Is it your place to step in?

I promised to help my hubby be a better person as part of my vows, however, all bets are off when it comes to dressing him!  What do you thnk?

There was a time that my jewellery box was looking somewhat disorganized but contained a good variety of presentable items if required. I never thought that I would find a passion that would see me owning 5 tackle boxes and only a single jewellery box, but it has happened.

This week Vogue India has really caught a lot of media attention from its August Issue.

On one page an old toothless woman holds a dirty and messy haired baby
wearing a $100 designer Fendi bib.  On another a barefoot man stands in
front of his mud hut holding onto a $500 Burberry umbrella as his,
presumably, wife laughs beside him.