Blessings for a Glorious 2014

Being stepmom in a blended family is the hardest job I’ve ever had to do, one filled with challenges that helped me grow to be the spiritual warrior I am today, and our kids, the healthy and good choice-making grounded individuals they are, also.

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an ordinary, extraordinary year—2011!

Ahhh, another turn of the year and here we are on the eve of 2011. How exciting! How enthalling! How positively intriguing. What will this year bring us? Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a most health-filled, posperous, and full-filled year, this blessed year of 2011. And I don’t say that lightly.…

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how to write a book

one word at a time. one sentence at a time, if you’re lucky it’ll be a good one that won’t take thirty re-writes. one paragraph at a time that maybe, just maybe, will end up in the correct place and you won’t have to wonder why the heck you wrote that stuff there anyway. one…

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rainy day yummmm–sharing the goodies

  check out: www.tspspices.com they are a terrif product, maybe you already know of these little darlings.   rainy today.   last night just a good girlfriend over to visit us and made the GREAT SURPRISE i’d discovered while Carter was away skiing in Vermont…which is… FREASH spinach (two big bunches): first sautee entire head of garlic…

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a slice of stewardship

dear friend,  here is an excerpt from “More Than Dust,” the book i’m writing. enjoy!   Timote and I traveled to Jamaica, our trip funded by a grant to discover a feared-extinct medicinal plant that researchers desperately needed, for a possible cancer-killing alkaloid they’d isolated from an old specimen, in a lab. Tim and I…

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sign up here to be a spiritual warrior!

hello friend, sorry for the typos in this post: i am crippled with a tech problem, soon to be fixed (via wordpress, my host). thanks for your patience and tolerance, dear literate reader. i guess you know by now that once a week is the rhythm of my newest my blog entry. until i work…

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