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Sunday Salon — November 3
Good morning!Time: // 8:12 am (I slept most of my extra hour)The scene: // Sunny and cool with a view of the neighbor’s maple that has turned a lovely... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
October Memoir Challenge — Wrap Up Post
I really enjoyed this year’s October Memoir Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan. The themes kicked up a lot of creative energy for me. Read more
Posted on 01 November 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
A New Road — October Memoir Challenge
For the final week of the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan our theme is Gratitude and Regrets. Read more
Posted on 31 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Career Steps and Mis-steps — October Memoir Challenge
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Gratitude and Regrets. On Sunday, I imagined a more... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Readers’ Workouts — October 29
Welcome to Readers’ Workouts where readers prove we can move. Join us each Tuesday to share your exercise stories and find companions for the fitness... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Childhood Abroad (Not) — October Memoir Challenge
The theme for the final week of the October Memoir Challenge is Gratitude and Regrets. I’m big on gratitude — an under-sung cure for every bad mood. Regrets, no... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Sunday Salon — October 27
Good morning!Time: // 9:13 am (yeah, I was up late cheering the Cardinals!)The scene: // Sunny and cool with a lovely golden light in our backyard because the... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Green Tomato Recipe
Our first frost was this week, so I cut down my tomato plants and rescued a large bowl of ripe yellow pear cherry tomatoes and two bowls of green tomatoes of... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Turning Toward Travel — October Memoir Challenge
This is the third of three posts on the theme Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or finding it, and of travel or journeys for the October Memoir and... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Book Review: Night Sweats by Laura Crossett
Book: Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy by Laura Crossett Genre: Memoir Publisher: Laura Crosett Publication date: 2013 Pages: 93Source: Purchased from Lulu... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Shallow Roots — October Memoir Challenge
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or finding it, and o... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Readers’ Workouts — October 22
Welcome to Readers’ Workouts, the weekly event where we share workout stories, goals, successes, and challenges.I’m ahead of schedule for meeting my goal of 140... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Family Vacations — October Memoir Challenge
The October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan has a new theme for the coming week: Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Dreaming of France with the Perfume Collector
I had to turn The Perfume Collector into the library last week so I included it in a group post: 5 Quick Book Reviews. But I wanted to make sure that the... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Sunday Salon — October 20
Good morning!Time: // 8:45 amThe scene: // Sunny and cool in a town waving the National League Pennant. I haven’t been much of a baseball fan in recent years... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Environmental Portraits Photography Workshop (part 2)
A couple of weeks ago, Rick and I took a Saturday workshop on Environmental Portraiture offered by the Shaw Nature Reserve which is part of the Missouri... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Secrets Revealed — October Memoir Challenge
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. So far, I wrote about secrets that I’m not revealing:... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Food Research News
The news that made the headlines this week was research on lab rats indicating a similar reaction to Oreos as cocaine. Here is Brian Williams take on it from th... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
Secretive Art — October Memoir Challenge
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. As I wrote in my first post, authentic writing require... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS -
5 Quick Book Reviews
I never seem to have as much to say about fiction as I do about nonfiction, so I’m going to provide short reviews of novels waiting on my To Be Reviewed stack. Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 BOOKS, FITNESS