With Hurricane Earl quickly approaching the Virginia Beach/Norfolk area (I keep making mental pictures that juxtapose hurricanes and trailer parks– not pretty), I’m reminded that now is a good time to try to put things in a bit of perspective. I live near Charlotte, NC, after spending most of my adult life near the Atlantic coast of Florida. Ironically, the worst hurricane I ever weathered was not there, but here, back about 20 years ago, with Hurricane Hugo. I remember when I first moved to central Florida, I was terribly disappointed at the lack of excitement, and big letdowns like Floyd (which barely missed the Florida Atlantic coast, then went on to ravage the Chesapeake Bay area).
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Anyway, I gave her some quinoa and some wild rice, because, if you MUST eat starches, those at least have lower glycemic levels than say, white rice or mashed potatoes. I was explaining to my friend that when I’d done that, my mom said she didn’t even know what quinoa WAS, and then my friend admitted that neither did she. Which just AMAZED me, since quinoa has been successfully cultivated on this continent for thousands of years. Two Very Different Functions of the Human Brain
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I was explaining the other day to a friend of mine that I was trying to help my mom to learn to eat healthier: she has diabetes, and isn’t supposed to eat sugar or potatoes, etc., but she grew up in the South and has inherited her cooking/eating habits from her own mother. Like, for example, just a few weeks ago, she explained that she’d been to a cafeteria for lunch, and had to have the mashed potatoes, because otherwise there’d be nothing to put the gravy on. I didn’t say anything, but just shook my head. 
Well, today’s Glenn Beck’s absurd 
A while back, my friend Kristen was recounting a story about her nephew, who was four at the time. He was upset because he wasn’t allowed to do something that would be expedient for him, but heinously violating to others. Kristen explained to him when he said “why?” that it was “because the man says no. And you’ll be answering to the man for your whole life.” Now, I generally disapprove of the whole “because I’m the mommy, that’s why” rationale, but in all fairness, he’s four , so according to 
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