Skip to content

Billie's Back Porch

Everything that makes life real

  • Music
    • Jazz
    • Soulful Notes
  • Eat and Drink
    • Breads – Yeast and Quick
    • Holiday Recipes
    • Libations
    • Recipes for Echelle
    • Recipes with Meat, Poultry, Fish, etc.
    • Sweets for the Sweet
    • Vegetables, Fruits and Grains
    • Vegetarian/Vegan
  • Books
  • Poetry
  • History
  • Posts
  • Contact Us

Day: March 21, 2022

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

You’re Invited to an Open Online Lenten Class with Diana Butler Bass & Tripp Fuller

What does it mean to take up the Lenten journey when Jesus may come with more baggage than blessings and occasions bigger questions than confidence? De/Constructing Jesus is a pop-up lear

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Job Exodus

56% Among U.S. workers who quit a job in 2021, the share who say they are now earning more money in their current job. Pew Research Center The majority of workers who quit a job in 2021 c

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Here’s How Long Milk Really Lasts—And How to Make It Last Longer

Brittany Gibson According to Eat By Date, once opened, all milk lasts four to seven days past its printed date, if refrigerated. If unopened, whole milk lasts five to seven days, reduced-fat and sk

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Common Dog Training Mistakes You Might Be Making

By Roxanna Coldiron March 11, 2020 Raising your voice Waiting until there is a problem Read more HERE.

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

These 4 Tweaks to Your Diet Could Add 10 Years to Your Life, According to New Research

Leah Goggins Reviewed by Dietitian Jessica Ball, M.S., RD A new article in PLOS Medicine found that people who make sustained changes to their diet can add up to 13 years to the

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Here is the average price of gas in all 50 states

By Katherine Rodriguez | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The average price of gas across all 50 states and the District of Columbia was $4.33 as of Friday, according to AAA: California – $5

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Dear Tucker Carlson: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is more qualified than some of the white men who served on the Supreme Court

David A. Love  |  Mar 4, 2022 There is a saying that when you’re Black, you must work twice as hard to get half the credit. This is most certainly true, and the predictable ye

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Pancakes from scratch

2 cups of flour, sifted 2 eggs 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda (only if using buttermilk) dash salt 1/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups plain whole milk or whole milk butterm

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Inoculations in American History

March 3, 2022 By David Leonhardt The original American advocate for inoculation against severe disease was arguably an enslaved man named Onesimus. Before being forcibly brought to Boston, Onesimus

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

Endometriosis awareness and action 2022

Endometriosis Awareness takes place across the globe during the month of March with a mission to raise awareness of a disease which affects an estimated 200 million worldwide. The pain of endometri

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

4 Surprising Ways to Be Happy for No Reason (YES, Even Now!) 

Marci Schimoff There has never been a better, or more important time, to rethink what makes you happy. True happiness comes from the inside out—no matter what’s going on in your life or the wor

Read More

  • Kintsugi
  • March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

HARRIET TUBMAN KEPT PUSHING FOR CHANGE AFTER THE ‘RAILROAD’

By Starlight Williams, Associate Editor Thursday, March 10, 2022 In her nine decades (she died on this day in 1913), Tubman (pictured in 1878) became the first U.S. woman to lead an armed military

Read More

NY Times

  • Baby Steps
  • The Reasonable Majority Is No Longer Silent
  • Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out
  • Can Trump’s Grand Plans for Gaza Get Off the Drawing Board?
  • A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

NPR

  • A new study reveals an unprecedented discovery of new species
  • Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
  • Amputees often feel disconnected from their bionic hands. AI could bridge the gap
  • For 50 years, Rockalina the turtle lived on a kitchen floor. Now she has a new friend
  • An exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a volcanoes-Black Death link

The Progressive

  • Living in Dangerous Times
  • Go Ahead, Be a Socialist
  • States Should Reject Federal School Voucher Scheme
  • Lanes of Resistance
  • The Hidden Dangers of Meta’s Partnership Offer to Schools

Latest Posts

  • Banned Books Week 2025
  • How to Check If a Website Is Legit or Fake
  • Less Biased News
  • Do you struggle with anxiety or depression?
  • How to Get a Real Person on the Line in Customer Service
  • International News Sources
  • What is the difference between acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin?

FactCheck.org

  • FactChecking Trump’s Economic Speech
  • Trump Confirms His Disparaging Remark About ‘Shithole Countries’ at Immigration Meeting
  • Probing Trump’s Verbal Attack on Somalis
  • Vance’s Misleading Claims on Housing Prices and Illegal Immigration
  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information

Snopes.com

  • What we know about claims of Army veteran George Retes' arrest and detention
  • Did Dolly Parton pull her music from Amazon to protest Bezos-Trump alignment?
  • Did trucker Rusty Miller rescue mother and baby from snowy highway?
  • Polaroids of Trump and Epstein with young women are fake. Here's the proof
  • White House really posted image of Trump as Minecraft character

Tradeoffs

  • One Scientist's Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses
  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
  • One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
  • Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Powered by WordPress