Stories and Photos of Our Lives Together
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Monday’s Menu: Tahini Mint Chocolate Shake
Tahini Mint Chocolate Shake From Yoly of Allrecipes.com (June 19, 2020). Shared: 2/19/14 It's National Chocolate Mint Day! If you'd like to join me in celebrating the day without relying on a peppermint patty, give this interes [...]
Love and Health – Wellness Wednesday
Love and Health: Benefits of Healthy Relationships by Shelby Wood Shared 2/14/24 Today, as you may be aware, is Valentine's Day. This day can be exciting, triggering ... or mean absolutely nothing to you. All of these feelings [...]
Monday’s Menu: Red Velvet Layer Bars
Red Velvet Layer Bars ????A Sweet for your sweetie???? From Sally McKenney of Sallysbakingaddition.com (May 27, 2021) Shared 2/12/24 Looking for a sweet for your sweetie this Valentine's Day? I'm not sure it gets much more de [...]
Honoring A Life Lost – Wellness Wednesday
Honoring A Life Lost Missy Ball, RN - Lyme Parish Nurse Posted: 2/7/24 At some point in our lives we will undoubtedly be confronted with the passing of a person connected to us either directly or indirectly. A person that liv [...]
Monday’s Menu: Blended Baked Oats
Blended Baked Oats : In celebration of World Nutella Day Recipe from Justin Sullivan of Delish.com/uk (March 4, 2021). Shared 2/5/2024 Today we celebrate, World Nutella Day! YUM! Picking just one recipe to share was a challenge [...]
Monday’s Menu: Vegan Cookies
Vegan Christmas Cookies From Richard Makin of Schoolnightvegan.com (Oct. 19, 2022). Technically this recipe is titled "Vegan Christmas Cookies", so while we're either late, or really early we're sharing this recipe this week for [...]
Vitamin D Dilemma – Wellness Wednesday
The Vitamin D Dilemma According to Sydney Welch on NBCBoston.com (Welch, Nov. 16, 2023), anywhere North of the 37th parallel for latitude does not receive enough sun for the production of Vitamin D. Boston's latitude is 42 degre [...]
Monday’s Menu: Persian Rice with Saffron and Asparagus
Persian Rice with Saffron and Asparagus From Vaishali Honawar of holycowvegan.net (Apr 12, 2023). Vaishali of holycowvegan.net states that this recipe is, "A fragrant, golden dish of Persian Rice with Saffron and Asparagus. It's [...]
Monday’s Menu: Hummus Pasta with Basil
One-Pot Hummus Pasta with Basil From Marley Goldin of marleysmenu.com (June 1, 2021) It's still veganuary, so here's another easy vegan recipe you might enjoy. With the MLK volunteer potluck today it seems fitting to share Marle [...]
Safety Strategy: winter driving – Wellness Wednesday
Safety strategies: What to do if you're stranded in your car in the winter Information from the CDC / National Center for Environmental Health ( December 11, 2023) When I first moved to Lyme, it was quickly clear that this area [...]
Value of Volunteerism– Wellness Wednesday
The Value of Volunteerism With Martin Luther King Day coming up on Monday, January 15th it feels important to circle back to the positive connections between volunteerism and health. We've already shared two Wellness Wednesday p [...]
Monday’s Menu: Instant Pot Borscht
Instant Pot Borscht Recipe from Katie Trant of heynutritionlady.com (Feb 24, 2022). A Ukrainian soup recipe from Katie Trant that you can quickly make. If you enjoy cabbage, beets and dill this soup might be right up your alley! [...]
Intuitive Eating – Wellness Wednesday
Intuitive Eating: Supporting wellness in the New Year & beyond Laurie Veillette, PsyD. The term Intuitive Eating was coined by two dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. At the time of its development in the late 90s, i [...]
Letting Go – Wellness Wednesday
Letting go of grudges in the New Year Based on information from Mayo Clinic Staff (Nov, 2022). The Mayo Clinic is a wonderful Forgiveness: Letting go of grudges and bitterness When someone you care about hurts you, you can hold [...]
Monday’s Menu: Vegetarian Jambalaya Recipe
Vegetarian Jambalaya Recipe This week's recipe is from Christina Lane of beanrecipes.com (Dec. 26, 2023) In honor of “Try Vegan this January” a month called “Veganuary” has been celebrated the last few years. Each recipe we’ll [...]
