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I would like to warn the community about the perils of the HCG diet. HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin and is a hormone that is produced by the placenta during pregnancy. This diet requires that the individual participating follow a very low calorie diet of 500 calories daily while taking HCG. Such an extreme low calorie diet can lead to starvation ketoacidosis, especially in very large individuals who require more calories to maintain their larger size than normal weight individuals. Starvation ketoacidosis is a...
I had heard about it, yes, but I did not want to actually hear it, you know, with my ears — or worse, see it with my eyes at the same time my ears were hearing it. I am, of course, talking about the news clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling fellow Republican Ted Cruz the P-word during a presidential rally. Not that any of the P-words bother me in normal circumstances. Technically, I am a P-word. Also, I’m not running for president. Language like that from a possible future dignitary and I’m thinking, “Real...
When I first visited Lani in Etzatlan, she made me welcome, but came close to threats, bribery and mayhem to convince me I should move to her town. Well, Heckle and Jeckle, I had been in Mazatlan only three months. I loved Mazatlan. Many trips from coast to mountains later, I caved to wishes, friendships, economics and knavery and bought a beautiful little casita which needs love. No surprise there for what I paid. The house is sound, all the services in good repair. My...
The incredible generosity of Montanans during 2015 was a clear testament to the commitment our friends and neighbors have to the future of our state. Because hundreds of donors continued to pursue their high-reaching philanthropic goals, Montana nonprofits, worthy projects and promising students all over the state received nearly $4.9 million from the Montana Community Foundation in calendar year 2015, a 21 percent increase over the previous year. The bar has certainly been raised this year for philanthropic giving....
Forget my wedding day — Thursday, yes, this Thursday was the happiest day of my life. Not even my 27 years of wedded, you know, marriage can compare to having a crew of professionals install 300 yards of fence posts in some of the most maddening ground known to mankind. The ground on my property is like bipolar, schizophrenic sociopath of Earth soil substances. It has a crazy quilt mash-up of layers of gravel, river-bottom sand, gritty sand, gumbo, hardened-to-almost-cement sand, more gumbo, more gravel, some pure, pottery-qu...
“Just think,” my cousin Nancie said, “We are re-creating ourt lives.” I pondered her statement. I decided creation is a vastly over-rated and messy business. Take a piece of graph paper. Beginning on the bottom left-hand corner, draw an arrow straight toward the upper right-hand corner. Label this page, “What I planned.” Take a second sheet of graph paper. Begin your arrow at the same bottom left-hand corner. No straight line this time. Squiggle and curve it in all directions. Label this page, “What happened.” In...
Earlier this week I read an editorial on how everyone should support Montana House Bill 245 because it is our right as adults to buy raw milk. First, there is no question in this debate. Individual human rights are always the most important, but with that comes personal responsibility. Public health over the past 200 years has tried to educate everyone on how to eat the correct foods, vaccinate against diseases and learn how to keep ourselves healthy. Being sick is no fun and it can be very expensive. Public health officials...
In an interesting turn of health news this week in Pamville, Hollywood stars are itching for the rights to get lice. Fox News has reported that Southern Illinois University researchers are saying that 25 states across the country have a case of "super lice." Researcher’s data shows that this genetic strain of lice is resistant to both over the counter and prescription treatments that traditionally kill lice. The lice are the size of standard, or traditional, lice but the o...
When I was a child growing up in Indiana, I loved Christmas for one reason: The mailman delivered the annual box of clothes sent by Aunt Ann, practically new hand-me-downs from cousin Nancie, a year older. Back then my grandma made most of our clothes. Back then, home sewn dresses were not “cool.” I lived for Nancie’s clothes. Attitudes are vastly different today. There is a world of difference between “homemade” and “Hand Crafted.” Each year Grandma sent me off to school wit...
This week the Havre Daily News published a series of articles which indicate the county has a mystery afoot in the housing market but, fear not, I am a font of answers that will set your mind at ease. A mysterious entity is buying up properties with delinquent taxes and not doing anything with the properties but letting them go derelict. It’s causing a noticeable blight in this county and others across the state. It’s aliens. I was going to lead into that better, maybe giv...
Silly childhood ditties often carry substantial wisdom. Consider “Row, row, row your boat.” On second thought, I’ll come back to that in a moment. First I announced that I bought a finely maintained old-Mexican style casita in the little village of Etzatlan. Next thing you know, Kathy and Richard from Victoria, British Columbia, made inquiries about a neighboring casita. Then Crin, Kathy’s sister, began asking questions, eliciting more interest in a possible retirem...
In a world where men and women suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from military and law enforcement service and unimaginable tragedies, I seem to have gotten PTSD from my kitchen drain being plugged. I know it sounds ridiculous, but in my defense, that drain pipe was plugged for several months, and if you have never had that experience, then you cannot imagine the psychological damage a tragedy like this can cause. For sure there is a way to explain why the drain...
Where do I start? At the beginning, you say. That was almost three years ago so let me start with last week and back track to the beginning, what say? Last week in Etzatlan I bought a casita. A beautiful brick Spanish style casita with arched windows and doors, tiled roof, and plenty of wrought iron. Sounds like an impulsive buy, doesn’t it? Like I said, the process began three years ago when I first went to Etzatlan to visit my new friend Lani. Etzatlan is a small village, about 20,000 people, sprawled in a wide and verdant...
February? Oh, right, I’m supposed to hate February. It’s the second month in a row without a vacation-worthy holiday — after that Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year glut of free time. The rest of the world is talking about spring and that liar Punxsutawney Phil, but up here in the near-Arctic no skunks are out, no bears have emerged looking for tourists to eat, sewer lines haven’t thawed, horses aren’t shedding, only the impatient cows (and the ones seduced by errant, vagabond...
Back in the day, I loved that song. I suspect it was my “whistling past the graveyard” attempt. Believe me, I was anything but the “Happiest Girl in the Whole USA.” I was full of pretense and misery, unemployed and broke, a single mom, newly divorced. In those days women bore the onus and responsibility for a “broken marriage.” Men were simply labeled “single and up for grabs.” It was not a pretty place for a woman to be. So I had a bit of an internal giggle at myself when the words of my once-favorite song looped through...
My sister often asks me “What is the most interesting case you have going?” Of course, I cannot give any names (not to protect the innocent, but to protect the guilty), but it seems there is never a lack of “interesting” cases. Some time ago I had a case that showed the undesirable underbelly of our community. This was a set of circumstances I, who has lived here all my life, knew nothing about. To begin this discussion, I set curfews in criminal release orders at 10 p.m., often stating: “Nothing good happens after 10 p.m....
By Robin Cunningham, Dan Vermillion and Ed Tompkins As Montanans we live close to the land. Our unique way of life is directly tied to the quality of our lands, waters, fish and wildlife. We are people who are counting on cold, clean waters and an abundance of trout. The quality of that resource directly impacts not only our personal recreation but also our business interests and our livelihoods. Each year guides, outfitters, fly shop owners, restaurants, hotels and their employees watch Montana’s snowpack anxiously. In an e...
Pamville News editors have meticulously scoured world news sources to bring readers highlights of importance. The nerds of India Yahoo News reported this week that Tata Motors Ltd., a car manufacturer in India, will be changing the name of its new Zica car before it is sold to the public because the name sounds like the new Zika virus that is gearing up to be the new pandemic to sweep the world, wreak havoc and endanger lives. Even corporations like to make healthy choices....
Ai-yi-yi, but I had a difficult day. My theory is that misery is contagious. My neighbor Ted from Edmonton was griping about the rock bottom value of the Canadian dollar, which has been on a steady decline for weeks. Frank on the other side of my door kept up a steady whine (steady decline-steady whine —t hat’s called internal rhyme) about the plunging value of his investments. Both of them moaned about the rising cost of living in Mazatlan. I stood in my doorway and lis...
I broke a significantly sized corner off a front tooth when I was 10 years old. Sorry to make you cringe right out of the gate. I was at the public swimming pool and as I was getting out of the water my hands slipped off the gutter. I slammed my mouth into the cement. It could have been worse, but I still remember looking in the mirror, choking back tears and the sickness in my gut. I was sure I was going to look wretched and stupid for the rest of my life. I was 10. I...
I’m thinking of running for president. You can’t run. You are too old and crippled. You walk with a cane. Walking doesn’t have the same elan. Listen: “I’m walking for president.” Who would vote for that? True, you won’t appeal to the youth. But consider, how many of the youth of today bother to vote? Good point. By rights, young people should rule the world. “A Game Boy in every hand.” “Make Angry Birds, Not War.” But if the young people don’t care to rule, I have an even be...
As a lifelong sportsman and gun owner, I’m committed to protecting law-abiding Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. And like many Montanans, I know that protecting the Second Amendment isn’t about hunting — it’s about freedom. President Barack Obama started off the new year by unilaterally creating new barriers to purchasing a firearm. His actions are an affront to our Second Amendment rights and a gross abuse of executive power. And like so many times before, Obama has pursued a “go-it-alone” approach on his gun contr...
I have a long and successful track record of failing at productive introspection. My natural philosophy generator has two settings: ultra-pragmatic and ohmigawd(!). It creates two types of responses the “whatever” and “life's too short for (insert curse word of your choice)” kind and the “life is over” and “what ___?!” (as in “what did I do?!” “what just happened?!” “what'd you do?!” and “what the (insert curse word of your choice)?!”) kind of thing. I read something a while...
I thought it wouldn’t matter. Under Arturo’s guidance I had been doing physical therapy twice weekly, for almost six months. I was walking strong and sure. When walking along the street I used my handsome walking stick, which I had purchased many years ago from a S’Klallam gentleman in Port Gamble, for balance. Now comes the really stupid part of my confession. I paid lip service to Arturo in August when he told me I would need to continue my exercises, especially the ones for...
Just like a stopped clock that gets the time correct twice a day, PSC Commissioner Roger Koopman’s critique of my earlier column on the Montana response to the EPA Clean Power Rules had one thing right, I do like hamburgers, preferably made with Montana beef. Otherwise, the representations he makes in his column indicate he didn’t even read my column, much less examine the data available at the Public Service Commission upon which I based my column. Readers can be excused for being confused when a current member and a for...
