http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/nutrition-health-wellness-articles/wellness/edamommys-vegan-diary-no-you-are Raising families the natural and organic way. Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:35:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/nutrition-health-wellness-articles/wellness/edamommys-vegan-diary-no-you-are/comment-page-1#comment-1076 happyhoarfrost Mon, 19 May 2008 19:13:23 +0000 http://kiwimagonline.com/kiwilog/2008/05/19/edamommys-vegan-diary-no-you-are/#comment-1076 Though it's tempting to point to a lack of animal protein in your diet to explain these Miss Macbeth tendencies/viewpoints, you are anything but humorless. Bloodless, perhaps, as a Vegan... I am having a difficult time commenting for once--If I say that I believe readers DON'T want to be ridiculed, doesn't that foul my M.O. here (turning me into Mary Poopins)? Maybe not RIDICULED--but I do think people respond well to a gentle, humorous spare-rib niggle which awakens self-awareness and can be quite motivating. MUCH more motivating than the rah-rah "everybody's a powerful winner!" kiss-kiss of the Oprah crowd. And no, you would never see all those people in the same room. There are rules about having that many vowels together at one time. Though it’s tempting to point to a lack of animal protein in your diet to explain these Miss Macbeth tendencies/viewpoints, you are anything but humorless. Bloodless, perhaps, as a Vegan…
I am having a difficult time commenting for once–If I say that I believe readers DON’T want to be ridiculed, doesn’t that foul my M.O. here (turning me into Mary Poopins)?
Maybe not RIDICULED–but I do think people respond well to a gentle, humorous spare-rib niggle which awakens self-awareness and can be quite motivating. MUCH more motivating than the rah-rah “everybody’s a powerful winner!” kiss-kiss of the Oprah crowd. And no, you would never see all those people in the same room. There are rules about having that many vowels together at one time.

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