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What a Simple Virus Like HPV Can Do

October 21, 2016 By Food Retro

When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”

Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Science Gives Me A Hadron, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, how-to, parenting, sponsored

I Went to an Apple Store and Forgot to Get Kool-Aid

October 8, 2015 By Food Retro

Why haven’t I gotten on the Apple bandwagon? Well, as a matter of fact I’ve been a proud Apple user several times–about once a decade since inception. But the straw that broke the camel’s back was an iBook in 2003 with a huge technical flaw that required its motherboard to be replaced about every 5 months,…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42

Commas Are Not the Chocolate Sprinkles of the Written Word

May 22, 2015 By Food Retro

Grey areas, the superfluous use of the letter U, and the mysterious rules of the semi-colon aside, the poor comma appears to be the source of much consternation and woe.  Are you an inadvertant abuser of commas? 

Filed Under: Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: punctuation

Minecraft is Shoving My Son Into the Digital Age and I’m Not Ready

April 6, 2015 By Food Retro

If there was ever something that I thought might try to wrestle the parenting reins away from me, I never, never once thought that it might be Minecraft. Instead, what started as a blocky-looking creative builder game swiftly evolved into the bane of my husband’s and my existence. A few of my son’s classmates played,…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, SLIDER, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: parenting

Saving Memories a New Way with OneDay #onedaykids

February 11, 2015 By Food Retro

Much to my family’s dismay, I’m one of those people who seldom photograph my own kid (I see him every day, after all). But I think my real disinterest in photographs are that photographs don’t do the kidlet justice. Sure, he might stick out his tongue or flex his muscles, but that doesn’t give anybody the…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42

6 Tips to Improve Your Food Photography… Cheaply!

November 21, 2014 By Food Retro

There’s tons and tons and tons of information on how to do food photography like a pro, but many of them require that you’re fully kitted out and experienced with a DSLR, tripod, and light kit; that you are not a beginner, understand the lingo, and know what the heck an f-stop is; that you have at…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: food blogging, how-to, image editing, photography

Boost Search Traffic to Your Recipes with Rich Snippets

November 16, 2014 By Food Retro

If I’ve learned one thing during my 18 months of food blogging, it’s that even figuring out the list of things that you ought to know can be a trial… Especially when it’s written in tech-talk. I believe that Google’s Rich Snippets are something that you absolutely must include on the list of things to figure out,…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: food blogging, Google, how-to, HTML, snippets

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