Author: Tara Cox
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Chicken Soup…for the Stomach
It is no wonder that one of the most popular inspirational book series is called Chicken Soup. Few foods illicit such strong feelings of warmth and comfort. Most of us remember fondly the Campbell Soup commercials of the little boy coming in out of the cold to a piping hot bowl of this magic elixir. […]
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Whatever happened to homemakers?
I received an email yesterday from a friend that he had shared my blog with some of his Facebook friends, whom he thought might be interested in what I have to say. His description of one of those friends got me to thinking. He said that she described herself as a homemaker. That made me […]
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Saturday Shopping
Each Saturday morning before eight my husband, mother-in-law, three year-old daughter, and I cram into his work van and make our weekly pilgrimage to the grocery store. Keeping with the family tradition set before I arrived, we shop at the UK largest retailer. We walk the aisles that are so familiar to us; selecting what […]
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Life’s Lesson
It’s Friday at last. The weekend is upon us. It might seem an odd time to get upon my soap box, but several things have happened recently in the news, to my friends and personally. So I want to talk today about the lessons we need to teach our children…and perhaps learn ourselves. Two headlines […]
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Portion Size
The headlines yesterday shouted about the rising prevalence of diabetes; some articles went so far as to suggest that if left unchecked this trend could bankrupt NHS (British National Health Service for my American readers). While the over all number of people with diabetes remains lower in the UK than in North America, this study […]
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Sunday Chicken
Yesterday I promised that we would talk today about Sunday chicken and so we shall. Being married to an absolutely wonderful Afro-Caribbean man, one of the first things I learned in our life together was the importance of Sunday chicken with rice & peas and gravy. After I moved over to London to be with […]
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