Andreas Makes Musical Chairs for Healing
We all know about Tibetan singing bowls, right? My daughter bought one in Sedona. But sound chairs and sound beds were new to me. I had never done any music therapy. What is it all about, I asked Andreas the Eibenklangzauberer
Postcards from the War
My grandmother wrote many letters to the front lines and encouraged the “homeboys” who she grew up with. Her two brothers were drafted as well. Oma kept the postcards from the field in a neat stack, which are my treasure now. Writing to soldiers in Word War I was like sending care packages to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Texas Kaktuswein Is Pressed from Ranch Life
The Buchners sought the simple life away from consumer society. They built up the “rock pile” (a half-built stone house with no electricity, no running water, but a windmill & water tank) with their own hands’ labor. Along the way, they taught themselves with library books, advice from the hardware store, or the proven experience from their farming neighbors.
Apricot Scarecrows to the Rescue
Don’t you dare eat my apricots, birds! I came up with a whole arsenal of bird defense. What best to do than conceal the prey? With plastic shopping bags I wrapped the heavy laden branches. Yet more area was to cover.
The Full Green Enchilada
If you want to make enchiladas, you need to have a sauce. Don’t cook this green enchilada casserole when you are in a rush. Make the sauce ahead of time.
Francisco’s Unusual Horticultural Advice
I have this mid-size, really lush apricot tree. In the last three year it had not had any fruit. Quite to the contrary, its little shabby apricot brother on the “desert” side of my backyard had sweet little fruits galore. Was my best tree still pouting since the last trim that I had given it myself? What could I do?
Truth by the Tyrolean Numbers
I have used the Tyrolean Numbers on the analysis of friends and family members and was perplexed how well it struck a chord each time. All you need is a person’s birthdate. What is it good for? It can be a decision help in childrearing, partnership, or business deals. It helps you think about people you are dealing with.
Arizona Winter Wonderland
We like to see and touch the snow, and then be out of it. We basically know all the coffee shops in Flagstaff, our favorite one Macy’s with its coffee roaster and inspiring photographs. Yeah, we could trying skiing sometime on Mount Humphreys, but we are too lazy. Instead we enjoy the vista across the winter wonderland from up there.
The Social Insanity–I Am In IT
Are we bored out of our minds? Can’t we talk in person any more? (No, we can’t. That’s what texting is for.) So I spin a blog that is hopefully not “normal”. Because if Facebook is the new normal, I prefer the “old crazy.” I love computers and digital media, but not the social insanity. As we are busy blogging and posting, we might miss out on life. Didn’t John Lennon say, “Life happens while you are busy posting”?
Cookies–Thumbprints and Macaroons
Let’s make two batches of cookies in one go: Santa’s Thumbprints and Macaroons. They originated from traditional German recipes, but I had to Americanize them by necessity. Split your eggs: the yolks into the butter cookies, the egg whites into the macaroons.