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A premed student turned opera singer and classical music teacher, I've been writing since the 1980s and have won awards for writing in several countries.
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    Walkies!

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    Welcome to another edition of La Niche Chien ! Today, on La Niche Chien we're going to look at one subject that is central to every dog owner who lives in the city -- walking the dog. As you remember, last time on La Niche Chien Schmoogie got lost (and fortunately, found). Now one thing changed after Schmoogie got lost -- she used to not like to walk. Evidently exploring the neighbourhood was enough to get her interested in walking around. Now she will go for long walks except in the daytime...
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    Whew! Scrubbing the Internet is Hard Work!

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    I have just started republishing my deleted eHow articles, only to find that some of my best earners were copied all over the internet, by places that should have known better. It took me several rounds of emails to get the duplicated content deleted from Yahoo!, but iVillage and others responded quite quickly. What I want to do is compliment HubPages on their site, as to how I learned from this experience. I copied my article from its cache on the Internet Wayback Machine and published the...
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    Welcome!

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    I started cooking when I was ten years old. As the daughter of an industrial chemist, I was always interested in how cooking worked, and thanks to a commenter on another site, and some encouragement from the fine folks at foodloversweb.com, I decided today to start this food blog. What I will be publishing is patterns in cooking as I find them. What that means for my readers is to free them from the tyranny of recipe books, and to learn to create your own recipes. Here's the first... although...
    Posted 25 days ago
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    Welcome to La Niche Chien!

    La Niche Chien (in English, the dog kennel) is about my friend's dog, Schmoogie. She calls me up...

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    Lost

    Welcome again to La Niche Chien ! Today on La Niche Chien I am going to relate a story of what...

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    Why Face First?

    My friends know that I love to eat and I have a real enthusiasm for food and flavour. I don't...

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    Pates or Terrines

    Fannie Farmer Cookbook, because I had bought a pork butt on sale and didn't know what to do with...

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    Better Living Through Chemistry

    Yes, that was the slogan I grew up with, not only because I was a child in the 1960s, but because...

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    Creating Time

    We've all heard it: "You have only twenty-four hours in a day." And that's true--up to a point....

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    Herbs, Part 3

    Last week we discussed herbal sugars: this week we're going to talk about herb salts. Just like...

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