It is Wrong to Despair
I can feel the gloom settle over the Kos, like a blanket of snow. Another defeat. Was this unexpected? I saw it coming, so most of you surely did as well. That does not make it any easier however. It...
View ArticleSo what are you going to do about it?
I, and I think most every progressive out here, would like to know what our representatives are going to do about Iraq. I would also like to know what are you going to do about the over reaching...
View ArticleHillary is losing me
I have been a Clinton fan since 1992. I have watched as she tried to take on heathcare and admired her knowledge and drive. I watched her speak knowledgeably about foreign policy without notes to...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen
For some time now I have been turning over the idea of writing a diary about dpression era cooking. With the possibility of losing my or my husbands job, missing mortgage payments, and no money for...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Don't Cut the Pork Roast edition
Hey everybody. Welcome to the next installment of the Depressed Kitchen. Today I want to talk a little bit more about meats that you may not have ever cooked with before. I myself had stayed away from...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Fowl Finances
Happy Sunday folks, and welcome to this weeks edition of the Depressed Kitchen. I have been disconcerted to see some Kossacks schadenfreude delight over family's losing their homes; especially when I...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: of Healthcare and Pot Roast
Good Sunday morning to all. As the healthcare debate begins to really heat up in Congress, it has become a looming issue in the Kettle house. Grandma Kettle was rushed to the hospital a two days ago...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen:Thoughts on Education and After School Snacks
Hey friends. It is Sunday and and time for another edition of the Depressed Kitchen. Today I want to write about education reform. There has been quite a bit of discussion about exactly what shape...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Too Depressed
Hello to all Kossacks. It has been a crazy few weeks here at the Kettle house. Grandma is doing better, but not better enough for me to not go by every day and help her with stuff. At least she got her...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Deals and Leftovers
Hello to all hungry Kossacks. Welcome to another edition of The Depressed Kitchen where your friend MaKettle tries to fix satisfying, kid friendly, cheap food and maintain sanity and a positive bank...
View ArticleRetiring Teachers: Continuing the Conversation
I think that the biggest challenge that education faces right now in this economic crisis would have to be retaining teachers and staff. Schools are still expected to help children learn and achieve,...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Pie, Politeness, Budgets
Hail and well met my friends. Welcome to another edition of the Depressed Kitchen, where I work to make a little bit of money go a long way in my kitchen with the help and guidance of a very large...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Odds and Ends
Hola Kossacks and friends! Welcome to another edition of the Depressed Kitchen where your friend MaKettle tries to do more with less, utilizing my huge collection of cook books which dates back as far...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Ma's Table
Hail and well met my friends. Welcome to another edition of the Depression Kitchen where I try my best to feed a family of four on $100 a week employing my collection of old cookbooks dating as far...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: My Failure
Hail and well met my friends. Welcome to another edition of the Depression Kitchen where I try my best to feed a family of four on $100 a week employing my collection of old cookbooks dating as far...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Deja vu all over again
Hello my friends. Welcome to another edition of the Depression Kitchen where I try my best to feed a family of four on $100 a week employing my collection of old cookbooks dating as far back as 1916,...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Cheap Eats and Good Talk
HEY! Happy holiday weekend everybody. What is everybody cookin' today? I just got to know. It is going to be hot here so I'll be grilling for sure. Why don't you come on in for some coffee while I set...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: It's the Karma, stupid
Hello Friends and acquaintances, Happy Weekend! I hope your grills have been hot, you beer cold, your children occupied, and your refrigerators full. Welcome to another edition of the Depressed Kitchen...
View ArticleThe Depressed Kitchen: Women's Rights = Cooked Goose
Happy Holidays! May whichever deity you choose bless whichever holiday you observe. (Do you hear me Bachus?) Pa and I were talking about the abortion caveats in the bills that were developed in the...
View ArticleAdjunctivitis
There isn't much left of me. I am tired. I can't remember being this tired before. Sure, I was pretty beat when each of the babies came, but I knew it would end. I knew that they would grow, and one...
View ArticleCan't stop thinking about it
Ok, so I can't stop thinking about it. Every day when I get up that's one of the first thing that runs through my mind as I mull over my ever-expanding day. Those thoughts rattle around until about 10...
View ArticleDepressed Kitchen: the Xmas Eve Brunch
Hello Friends! Welcome to the Depressed Kitchen, which describes not only the economy in general, but specifically as it applies to me. I have a huge stash of Depression era cookbooks, and what's left...
View ArticleSallie Mae is a Psycho-B**** (Kvetch with me!)
Hey Everybody! It's a good thing Sallie Mae is closed today because I have some DMV type anger going on here. So I owe a gazillion dollars in student loans, which is another conversation altogether....
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