Posts by moonmarcy

Try brushing your teeth before you eat anything.  I find the mint taste pretty much ruins my craving for anything else. Plus your dentist will be thrilled

There are so many poems that I love and visit often.

Seamus Heaney: "The Follower" and this next one because it hits so close to home.

"Mid-Term Break"

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble,"
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room.
Snowdrops and candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

John Donne: "Holy Sonnet 10"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott"

Christina Rossetti: "No, Thank you, John"

U.A. Fanthorpe: "Old Man, Old Man"

I also have a difficult time keeping my iron level up.  I found Plantation Blackstrap Unsulphured molasses has 20% of iron RDA.   House of Herbs molasses is even higher.

I also just found that Grape Nuts nuggets and Fiber One Honey Clusters have a whopping 90% of RDA iron. (plus I get a good fiber boost from Fiber One).