Confessions of a Grandma

This list of eleven foods to eat when you are trying to lose weight is stolen from realage.com : yogurt eggs pistachios grapefruit avocado mushrooms olive oil whole grains red peppers fava beans rice combined with vegetables AHA!  Now I know.  All I have to do is start eating fava beans and those few pesky pounds will just melt away.  How easy is that? I was reading about Dr. Oz and a "new" "miracle" diet.  It seems we must avoid obesogens (Does that sound like a made up word or what?  Good grief.)  Obesogens (Hm...apparently I misspell it because spell check is just not recognizing this word.  Go figure.) are sugars like high fructose corn syrup, highly processed foods, and chemical additives.  Gee, that is new and exciting!  Get over yourself, Dr. Oz.  Really. We went out for lunch today at Robbi's Reef .  We were surprised by the limited menu, but, boy, was the food good.  I had fish tacos with rice and b...

After saying how much I like southern writers, I picked up " The New York Times BESTSELLING AUTHOR DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK Lowcountry Summer " but before I was fifty pages into it, I realized I would rather be watching "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" and the "Real Housewives" of anywhere is a show that my I put a V-chip on. Fortunately, I also picked up a copy of Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger) and that is holding my interest. Mike and I went out to a restaurant on the lake last night. This is a place where we usually watch all the activity on the nearby bike path, the ferry dock, and the boat marina, but nothing was going on last night. I can't believe it was too hot to even take out your sailboat if you are fortunate enough to own one, but it must have been. We people watched the two couples at tables on either side of us instead. The first couple came in and sat down while apparently finishing up an argument they'd been engaged in. ...