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That's the Way the Cookies Crumble re Bush and Minions, but If You Nibble on Nancy's Own Lemon Ginger Shortbread Cookies the World Will Seem a Little Sweeter

All things Bush gets me so agitated that I cannot stand it. So munching one of Nancy's Own Cookies soothes my fevered brow and makes my heart sing. I like my Nancy's Own Lemon Ginger Shortbread cookies with a cup of fair trade and organic Earl Grey. Delicious! Nancy Newman the baker of these delectable cookies will be offering them in the Vaboomer Book Cafe and Tea Shop in early August when Vaboomer expands. Here is a bit about her.

Nancy Ann Newman, 52, a French-trained chef, has 25 years experience as a cooking instructor.  She has taught home cooks, executives and children.  She has also been the Executive Chef for corporations in NYC and NJ. She has also spent over two years substituting in public school system in grades K-12. She has two children ages 10 and 13 and teaches privately to others individually or in groups. She is now in process of creating live-stream cooking classes to reach a larger audience.  She bakes and sells cookies called Nancy's Own.  They are: Lemon Ginger Shortbread, Cheddar Shortbread with Spiced Pecans, Crispy Chocolate Chip and Almond Crisps with Chocolate Mint Kisses. She attended La Varenne in Paris and worked at Peter Kump's and the Institute for Culinary Education in Manhattan for 15 years.

She was with King's in New Jersey for eight years.  Her experience includes a stint at Ladies Home Journal and with an interior design firm in Manhattan, L.I., and Connecticut for two years.  Nancy’s Own Cookies Lemon Ginger Shortbread cookies are a delectable 2-bite delight. Melt-in-your-mouth texture with a delicious ping of lemon and a back hint of ginger. Try with a steaming cup of Earl Grey. As a technical note for lemon ginger cookies-they are made with a coarse Caribbean "spiced" lemon sugar and crystallized ginger.  This makes them extra flavorful, and crispy. 

The Crispy Chocolate Chip cookies are made with a "secret " ingredient to make them richer and with organic chocolate chips. They would go fine with a steaming mug of fair trade organic java!

The Almond Crisps are topped with a chocolate mint kiss and are studded with chunks of almonds. The Cheese Short Biscuits are meltingly fine with aged Cabot cheddar and topped with spicy pecans. Rich and delicious with a tickle of heat.

The Homemade Healthbars are nutritionally packed with Irish oatmeal, applesauce, orange zest, and raisins.  At only 103 calories, 3 g. fat, these bars will add fiber and be a good energy source.
I'll be on the road for the next 3-4 days on our way to MICH. I'll try to post from the road. That will be a new one for me.

In the meantime think sweet cookies--not Bush and his waning days of presidency.

If You Are Native American or Part Native American--4th of July Is Bittersweet

Something to think about...the national holiday is a bittersweet one for those of us of partial Native American heritage.I'm a little bit Cherokee and always have mixed feelings about celebrating a holiday that marks the demise of native people's nations...

The 4th of July celebrates the conquest of native peoples here and the theft of their lands.

But then from the perspective of my polyglot European heritage, I am thrilled that my ancestors could leave what ever difficulties they were facing in northern Europe and come to these shores. Like most things in life--this is complex and complicated.

I do love getting together with friends and hearing those firecrackers--sometimes I imagine its rifle shots of my native ancestor ghosts

picking off another paleface!!

Baby Boomers want it all! And why not?

Inspired by a women’s movement grass roots slogan, “The Personal Is Political,” we take our personal lives, our well-being, our development, our health, relationships, longevity seriously,

our constitutional right to happiness—an extraordinary promise—as well.

We seek, no embrace happiness. Like my mom who could always find the funny in anything, we are joyologists—dedicated to lifting our own spirits and the spirits of the world.

As we are approaching 60 in record numbers—some 80,000,000 strong, more and more of us are boomeranging—looping around on new life trajectories. With 60 the new 40, and thousands and thousands of us living longer and longer even potentially to 100 or more—the longevity tables are growing exponentially—what are we going to do with ourselves as we live out our second 60?

If we are anything like my Grandmother, Ellen, or my Mother, Kate, we are going to boomerang Big Time! In record numbers we are going to return to our inner sources, our inner brillant light and stream forth again on new paths.

We’ll take up new jobs, new educational directions, new interests, new relationships, new careers. My mom had her 5^th career when she became a newspaper columnist at 80. My grandmother taught school for many years, then birthed 11 children and then founded a school, a hospital and a women’s community organization that is still going nearly 80 years later. I think our generation will return to deep aspirations long hidden, long denied, long ignored, or long devalued by others, to let our inspiration shine.

As more and more of the Boomer generation is set to become Boomerangers returning to our inner sources and booming again, we are going to contribute our energy, our va va va voom, our vroom, vroom as The New Vaboomer Generation—vabursting with new ideas and solutions, our signature “can do” creativity, energy and contributions.

Vaboomer.com -- it’s a new blog, which is "The Portal to Boomeranger World". Look for Boomeranger books, art, music, advice, help, resources, and connections in the coming months.

We boomed once before. Now, we Boomerangers will va va va vaboom again as The New Vaboomer Generation!

 

Call Us Boomerangers--The New Vaboomer Generation!

We Boomerangers fit most easily in the Baby Boom 1946-1964. While I am a few months ahead of the official start of the Boom, and have always felt its “hot breath” on my neck, I’m also the daughter and granddaughter of Boomerangers. How can women of three generations whose life spans stretch back over 140 years to the end of the Civil War have anything to do with those born during the Baby Boom? What do my mother and my grandmother have in common with the Boomers? And why am I calling all of us Boomerangers?

For those of us who have a Boomeranger stage of mind, it’s all about how we view life and little about the numbers. For my Grandmother and Mom, it’s how they continued to develop as human beings—always considering themselves becoming fuller and fuller people. It’s how they viewed themselves as always aiming to enhance their lives and the lives of those around them even as they edged toward triple digits.

The Baby Boom generation has similar characteristics. We are famous for our no holds barred approach to life. Where there is a roadblock we leap over it or knock it aside. Where there is a stop sign, we pause for a moment and then speed ahead. We see obstacles as challenges to be explored and sources of innovation. We’ve soared into outer space and delved into the mysteries of inner space.

We created The New Age. We created the Internet Age. We’ve often been mocked and reduced to a marketable “style,” but without us there would be no Title VII (equal employment) or Title IX (equal education). There would be no Roe V. Wade. There would not be an environmental movement or Green Consciousness. There would be no policy or services helping abused children or women or elders. We see a problem. We work to fix it. We don’t always get it right, but we are not complacent. And we don’t give up.