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Champagne Tastes… Beer Budget?

A few quick tips for your reading pleasure: 1. Everyone loves potatoes: Forget polenta… fancy sides that no one knows the name of, seriously. When it comes right down to it, we are all meat and potatoes people. Feed a crowd and make them feel like they had something really special all at the same [...]

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December 31, 2010 read more

Why Holiday Meals are not All That…

Grand Central, originally uploaded by iheartgreatbeer. Ah the Thanksgiving/Christmas meal! All your favorites on one table. An excuse to load up on all the carbs, fat and sugar you don’t allow yourself all year long. AND like all good addicts we binge. We eat all day, we eat it all, we make ourselves sick and [...]

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December 11, 2010 read more

Taco Stand @ SXSWi 2010

via twitterrific Posted via web from tracy1314′s posterous

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March 12, 2010 read more

The Life Saver Bottle! Clean Water on the Cheap

Not too long ago I was ranting about how clean drinking water and sanitation systems are an integral part of malaria prevention… AND that they had the added benefit of saving lives lost to diarrhea and other water born illness. Check out this game changer! Visit them at LifeSaver Systems

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August 5, 2009 read more

Perspectives on Honduras

Weeks before the Honduran military stomped in and escorted Zelaya out of office, I had been seeing rumblings of concern from the Honduran twitterverse. When the crisis finally came I was not surprised. All through my childhood there was a political meltdown and we would move. Nicaragua and the Sandinistas, Honduras pre-democratic election… honestly I [...]

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July 6, 2009 read more

Social Innovation and a Level Playing Field… Is is possible?

11, originally uploaded by Epic Change.Teachers, parents and students stand in-line at the internet cafe to vote for Epic Change on IdeaBlob My good friend Stacey Monk CEO of Epic Change has taken full advantage of every opportunity she can find to fund the program she works with in Tanzania. A school that has in [...]

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May 29, 2009 read more

Uncle Buck. I’ll Miss You

Today at 5:15 my Great Uncle Buck passed away. What a strange phrase. He would have said, he went to be with Jesus, or entered life eternal… and honestly, I believe he did. He was a giant of a man and a gentler soul you would be hard pressed to find. He was the oldest [...]

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April 29, 2009 read more

Poem ‘O the Day: Arbolé, Arbolé…

Capri Girl (Among the Olive Trees), originally uploaded by bustanoodle. Arbolé, arbolé, seco y verdí. La niña del bello rostro está cogiendo aceituna. El viento, galán de torres, la prende por la cintura. Pasaron cuatro jinetes sobre jacas andaluzas, con trajes de azul y verde, con largas capas oscuras. “Vente a Córdoba, muchacha.” La niña [...]

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March 7, 2009 read more

Gorgeous and moving images from Guatemala

These images tell a story. A story of a passionate people, in a culture that is more violent and more beautiful than anyone really understands. Wanting justice, freedom and opportunity, who can blame them for the fight? I have always been in love with Guatemala and these images really remind me why.

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March 5, 2009 read more

Beautiful Images from Finca Santa Anita

from their Flikr page: Comunidad Santa Anita La Unión is a community of survivors of Guatemala’s civil war – former guerillas and former refugees – who now collectively own an organic coffee plantation in rural Southwestern Guatemala. After the Peace Accords were signed in 1996 to end the 36-year internal armed conflict, refugees returned from [...]

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March 4, 2009 read more

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