Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian
A Conservative Lesbian
A few mornings ago when I looked down from my bedroom window I saw two male goldfinches clinging to the spikes of tiny, pale lavender flowers in the catnip patch below, daintily pecking at the blossoms. I grew the catnip plants from seed last year and they got a couple of feet tall. This year …
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One of the foods that Dad loves is fried green tomatoes, but he is on a sodium-restricted diet, so I have figured out a recipe for low-sodium fried green tomatoes. A four-ounce tomato has 11 grams of sodium. Corn meal does not have sodium — although corn meal mixes do, so check the package — …
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UPDATED 3/17/2010 — scroll down for the additional material. The seeds I ordered from Bradley Gates of Wild Boar Farms for some of the amazing and delicious varieties of open-pollinated tomatoes that he developed arrived today! I know I called them “heirloom tomatoes” in the headline, and in 45 or so years they will be. …
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Dear Attila, I am delighted to learn that you have discussed a sleep study with a doctor — I hope, one who is a sleep specialist, since the study of sleep medicine is brand-new and even young general practitioners mostly only know enough about sleep medicine to be dangerous, that is, dismissive of real problems, …