Posts Tagged ‘Hoppiness’
Dream Big & Shop Small
This year I’m participating for the first-time-ever as a seller next week on Small Business Saturday. If you haven’t heard of it, this is the holiday squeezed in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s a time for you, the Almighty Consumer, to support me, the tiny, hobby-like wannabe entrepreneur. See what the front of this…
Read MoreFinding Peace with Food
Wanderlust
I arrived home a few weeks ago from an almost-two-week vacay in Europe. Not really a vacation; as my brother would say, I took a trip not a vacation. A vacation is when you go lay on a beach somewhere and relax. We did anything BUT relax on this trip. View from Hohentwiel Castle in Singen,…
Read MoreSelf Portrait
She is stronger than she looks.The grace she so freely gives is her strength – not her weakness. She likes her laugh because it feels contagious.She is always genuine, perhaps to a fault. She feels like a thread in a tapestry, weaving in and out of people’s lives; she touches so many.Beautiful,…
Read MoreEvery Purchase Matters: Slow Fashion and Ethically Made Clothing
Fairly made coat, thrift store snow pants, Craigslist snowshoes, and friend-gifted scarf We live in a global society. In fact, you’re probably using a device right now whose components were manufactured in six of the seven continents on our planet. In our modern society, the surplus harvest in Russia affects the US wheat markets and…
Read MoreHello, world.
Well, here we go. I’ve considered the idea of blogging for several years, but I always talked myself out of it. What would I say? Who would I say it to? I always thought I would be just one more person in the vast span of the Internet. Buuut then I talked to a few people…
Read More3 Big Benefits of Family Dinner
The benefits of having mealtime as a family mealtime extend beyond nutrition, helping you to connect with your children and promote healthy eating habits. Growing up on a farm in Kansas, the dinner table was always a special place for my family. During Sweet Corn Season in the summer, my parents, brother, and I would…
Read MoreWhat is Hoppiness? The Origin Story of Peas and Hoppiness
Baby blogger Ann back home on the farm, learning about Nitrogen Fertilizer and Crop Rotation in agriculture Peas and Hoppiness. Yes, it’s a food pun. No, it’s not a typo – it’s spelled with an “O.” As in “hops,” like what’s used to brew beer. Peas and Hoppiness started as a brainstorming session of potential…
Read MoreEmotional Hunger: How to Nourish Your Soul
Our bodies crave nature. Sometimes feeding emotional hunger is as simple as sitting outside on your porch and taking five deep breaths. I bet I don’t even have to define it. I bet – intuitively – you know what I’m talking about when I mention Emotional Hunger and how it differs from Physical Hunger. The…
Read More5 Tips to Beat the Body Blues
Summertime is peeking around the corner. And you know what that means: swimsuit season. Yes, the season you’ve put off training for all winter long. The season of teeny-tiny, perfectly tanned bikini models. The season of commercials with guys who have 6-packs playing sand volleyball. It’s a rough season for everybody. Throw back to last…
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