5 Steps to Encouragement (free e-book)

It is the end of February.  It is sort of dark and gray and cold.  I have piles of laundry.  It took me all week just to vacuum the upstairs . . . I just kept walking past the vacuum cleaner thinking “I need to vacuum!” . . . I’ll get to that.  My life…

Writer=Occupation or Hobby

This is from a post I wrote in July of this year–it describes why I blog and how it is a “work in progress”–then I came across this name on the web–Jeff Goins.  Jeff’s picture kept looking at me in an interesting mix of blogs . . . so finally I clicked on him!  What…

Cooking for the Crew

I really enjoy the Ultimate Recipe Swap–I know I say that every week–but I do.  This week on the schedule is Company Dinners. I have 6 in my family plus my brother’s families the total reaches 17!  That doesn’t happen very often anymore–ok–it never happens anymore but when it did I loved cooking for all…