“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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50 Things I Learned In 50 Years
Note: I have buried one husband and divorced another and am currently married x almost 10 years. Don't fight with me. This is my experience. Make your own list if you want one.
Let’s begin.
If you have empty glass jars, might be worth filling them with water.
Personally, I waterbath them for ten minutes so they are sterile, and I reuse the flats so the cost is negligible.
I’m seeing all of these grok bot posts and I just don’t care. How screwed am I going to be in the future if I don’t learn this stuff?
I want a re-do.
(Not just because of the food…)
Meat should be baby's FIRST food. Not infant cereal.
How dare I? Read on...
Researchers at the University of Colorado tested it. 88 breastfed babies. Half got pureed beef as their first food. Half got iron-fortified infant cereal.
At 7 months, the cereal babies got 0.6 mg of zinc a day from solid food. That's about 25% of what they need. The beef babies got 1.9 mg. More than 3 times as much.
The beef babies also had more head growth from 7 to 12 months.
And the babies took the beef just as well as the cereal.
"But cereal has iron!" Iron sprayed onto starch. Iron is absorbed at 14 to 18% from diets with meat, and only 5 to 12% from vegetarian diets. Meat itself helps you absorb iron. Cereal doesn't.
A growing brain needs protein, fat, zinc and iron. Infant cereal is starch (sugar) with iron added...
Meat is a health food. For babies too.
Read the actual studies. Links below...
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2021: I was overweight, unhealthy and exhausted. Not only did I feel low on energy but I also felt like I was always having to squeeze into clothing that felt tighter than when I last wore them. I was tired of buying clothes with elastic waistbands and drawstrings.
In fall of 2024, my husband and I decided to drop carbs from our diet and now we eat only animal based foods. It’s not true carnivore because we allow dairy and eggs, but it’s a far cry from the standard 🇺🇸 diet we had been eating.
I started going to pool aerobics and this year in June, my husband decided to join the gym, too, so we added weights thrice weekly and an evening walk, every day.
Now I track everything. My diet, exercise, how much I lift, my weight and any changes. I watch trends and I’ve noticed a shift.
I really enjoy having a routine, lifting weights, swimming, walking and eating how I do. I love tracking my data and seeing the trends. It has its own value.
My weight has changed a lot and my body continues to change but that almost isn’t the point anymore.
I honestly couldn’t care less about the outcome.
For the first time in my life, I am not trying to get a certain number on the scale, keep my weight the same or get a certain body shape. I don’t care what the outcome is.
I chose these inputs intentionally and am mindful of what comes from them. However, I don’t put my happiness in them to give me a certain outcome.
I can see my weight change and say to myself: that’s interesting. I can see changes in my body and not feel like they are telling me to do anything about them. They just are.
I love seeing the data. I want to know what is going on! However, I have come to not care what the outcome is.
I used to see these inputs as a way to create an outcome, but now I value the inputs, just because I enjoy the inputs themselves.
I don’t exercise to get my body to look a certain way. I do it because I have learned to love being active, getting stronger and seeing what my body can do.
I don’t eat like this to get a certain number. I just eat like this.
I don’t track my data to make it say a certain thing. I do it because I am interested in what it is saying.
Tracking your data to change your body is different to tracking it to observe your body.
The first puts the outcome as the main focus whereas the last allows you to be intentional with how you live your life.
I care about what I am doing, how I am living my life and learning…but I am not expecting it to be anything in particular. I am not trying to make it anything in particular.
It is an incredibly freeing and new way for me to live.
Posting photos of the hubs so I can brag about his progress, too.
You STILL want to be an organ donor?
Part 2 of my recent discussion with Dr. Robert Jackson deals with some rapidly rising and more controversial organ harvesting techniques:
“A man is declared dead on an operating table, sent to the morgue, and then wakes up 40 minutes later with his abdomen still open. That story isn’t shared for shock value, it sets up the central question we wrestle with: when medicine says “dead,” does it always mean what you think it means, especially when organ donation is on the table?
We’re joined again by Dr. Heidi Klessig to dig into Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD), a fast-growing organ procurement pathway used when a patient is not brain dead but has a poor prognosis and a DNR is in place. We walk through the step-by-step protocol, the two-to-five-minute waiting periods used in different states, and why critics argue those windows can’t prove “irreversible” loss of circulation as required by the Uniform Determination of Death Act. From there, we discuss reported cases like Misty Hawkins and Larry Black Jr., where the line between dying, dead, and recoverable becomes painfully blurry, and families are left with too little clear information.
Then we go deeper into Normal Thermic Regional Perfusion (NRP), a technique that can restart a heart after death is declared, and the ethical alarms that raises about the dead donor rule, informed consent, and patient awareness. We also talk about the profit incentives inside transplant medicine and the public push by some voices to redefine death again to expand the donor pool.
If you care about end-of-life ethics, organ donation, brain death, DCD, NRP, and protecting vulnerable ICU patients, listen closely, share this with someone you love, and subscribe so you don’t miss what comes next.”
I saw the owner of an in-home daycare post this and thought:
Those kids are getting Benadryl every day. 😬
2021: I was overweight, unhealthy and exhausted. Not only did I feel low on energy but I also felt like I was always having to squeeze into clothing that felt tighter than when I last wore them. I was tired of buying clothes with elastic waistbands and drawstrings.
In fall of 2024, my husband and I decided to drop carbs from our diet and now we eat only animal based foods. It’s not true carnivore because we allow dairy and eggs, but it’s a far cry from the standard 🇺🇸 diet we had been eating.
I started going to pool aerobics and this year in June, my husband decided to join the gym, too, so we added weights thrice weekly and an evening walk, every day.
Now I track everything. My diet, exercise, how much I lift, my weight and any changes. I watch trends and I’ve noticed a shift.
I really enjoy having a routine, lifting weights, swimming, walking and eating how I do. I love tracking my data and seeing the trends. It has its own value.
My weight has changed a lot and my body continues to change but that almost isn’t the point anymore.
I honestly couldn’t care less about the outcome.
For the first time in my life, I am not trying to get a certain number on the scale, keep my weight the same or get a certain body shape. I don’t care what the outcome is.
I chose these inputs intentionally and am mindful of what comes from them. However, I don’t put my happiness in them to give me a certain outcome.
I can see my weight change and say to myself: that’s interesting. I can see changes in my body and not feel like they are telling me to do anything about them. They just are.
I love seeing the data. I want to know what is going on! However, I have come to not care what the outcome is.
I used to see these inputs as a way to create an outcome, but now I value the inputs, just because I enjoy the inputs themselves.
I don’t exercise to get my body to look a certain way. I do it because I have learned to love being active, getting stronger and seeing what my body can do.
I don’t eat like this to get a certain number. I just eat like this.
I don’t track my data to make it say a certain thing. I do it because I am interested in what it is saying.
Tracking your data to change your body is different to tracking it to observe your body.
The first puts the outcome as the main focus whereas the last allows you to be intentional with how you live your life.
I care about what I am doing, how I am living my life and learning…but I am not expecting it to be anything in particular. I am not trying to make it anything in particular.
It is an incredibly freeing and new way for me to live.
Posting photos of the hubs so I can brag about his progress, too.
As Latter-day Saints, we believe every human life has eternal significance. But you don’t have to share my beliefs—or any religious beliefs—to pray for the protection of the most vulnerable among us.
Whether you pray to Heavenly Father, God, the universe, or simply hold a hope for humanity, consider taking five minutes a day for the next nine days to reflect on the value of human life and the children yet to be born.
We don’t have to agree on everything to unite in something that matters. ❤️
Friends — a quick invitation, no strings attached.
Catholics in the U.S. are praying a novena right now, Oct 22-30. A novena is simply nine days of prayer for a particular intention — it comes from Acts 1, where Mary and the apostles prayed together for the nine days between the Ascension and Pentecost.
This one is the Respect Life Novena.
Each day has a different intention, a short reflection, and the same simple prayers: the Lord’s Prayer, three Hail Marys, and the Glory Be. Today we prayed that every life be protected from conception to natural death. Tomorrow we pray specifically for unborn children, that they be protected in law and welcomed in love.
I’m inviting you because this is ground we already share: that God knows each child before He forms them in the womb (Jeremiah 1:5, Psalm 139), that Mary said yes to an unexpected child, and that every life is a gift, not an accident.
Pray it in your own way, at your own time — it takes about five minutes. You’d be very welcome.
Finally, the French men have found their balls.
It’s about time. Cheering for them.
Use those sabers freely and like you mean it.
French shop owners are picking up sabers to defend their livelihood because local law enforcement can't protect them. When you push hard-working citizens to the brink, they fight back. "You shall not pass" isn't just a movie line anymore—it's law and order taking back the streets! xitter.cf/Frontieresmedia/status…
There’s a metaphor about life here.
I gave 20 skeins of yarn away today. The lady squealed like it was Christmas.
Is getting yarn that big of a deal?
Contemplating getting a DEXA scan…no real reason except curiosity.
If you’ve done it, or if you’ve decided against it, tell me why.
