On A Limb with Claudia

Yesterday, I decided to escape the city for a while and go for a hike. I took the dog and headed off into Mount Falcon Open Space . I had the best intentions of spending an hour or so then heading back to my desk and back to the computer. Carefully, I [...]

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I have this thing about electric can openers. They never work. My grandfather had an avocado green and a bright yellow electric can opener. Neither worked. He routinely opened cans with the traditional hand held model. Every time he opened a can, he would rant about how electric can openers [...]

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It’s really popular to criticize our government. And frankly, there are a lot of reasons to criticize our government. It’s also our “right” in a democratic society to criticize the government. But what does it really get us?
Does criticizing the government get us:
~ less taxes?
~ smarter, more productive civil servants?
~ happier [...]

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Every once in a while, a stranger breaks into our house. He doesn’t steal or break anything. In fact, the only thing he does is leave the toilet seat up. I know what you are thinking but no one here would be so inconsiderate as to leave the toilet seat up. [...]

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Have you seen this? It turns out that daily “doses” of dark chocolate can reduce your blood pressure. (Check out this article) A number of studies show that the flavonoids in the chocolate help increase insulin resistance as well as lowering blood pressure. Around the country people celebrate!
You have to eat [...]

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Brought to my attention by Rob Brezney, this is a list of 10 Media Fed Myths.
Oddly enough, it doesn’t include global warming. You see according to the Utne reader there are 928 peer-reviewed scientific jouranl articles about global warming published between 1993 and 2003. Every single article states that global warming [...]

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It occurs to me that life would be much simpler if there was an International Blame Council. This council would have been created by the United Nations to determine who was to blame for a variety of large and small issues. There would be a set of rules and, if you had trouble [...]

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Recently, we held a little ceremony where each person was symbolically “let go” of 3 things in his or her life and symbolically “invited in” 3 other things. I was amazed that everyone’s wishes were similar.
Every single person wanted to be debt free. Given that everyone at the party was 41 years old, [...]

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Around New Year’s Eve, I went to see Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at the encouragement of our friend Rick Baca. (More on that later!) Around midnight, Slim introduced someone he called “his hero”. It was an aged (read: obese) Jello Biafra.
Jello Biafra was the lead singer in a 1980’s band called the [...]

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It will be an exciting year here at the Open Grove. We have a variety of projects designed to support you in your every day life. Look for an announcement this week that will include our schedule for next year as well as some fun and interesting projects for you to participate in!
Many [...]

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