Award Winning Chili – Sweet Potato Chili with Peanuts

It’s been too long since I posted a recipe. So here it is, a recipe.  An Award Winning recipe, I might add.  Last Saturday, this chili won the Hill Street Hoedown Chili Cookoff People’s Choice award.  And I didn’t even have to do all of the campaigning myself.  It actually stood on its own, and [...]

Valentine’s Day

Every year, I think about getting those silly Valentine’s Day cards at the store and sending them to my siblings and nieces and nephews and friends.  Basically, I never get that taken care of.  Sometimes, I’ll even manage to buy the cards (usually Harry Potter) and then promptly not get anything done with them.

I [...]

Mindfulness – February’s Happiness Theme

To kick off my Happiness Project, I picked the theme of Mindfulness.  It’s strikingly similar to Gretchin Rubin’s February theme of Self-Awareness.

Mindfulness has been coming up in my reading fairly regularly over the past few months.  It is a process of paying attention to one’s self and one’s emotions, and accepting them.  One [...]