I received a note last week from an aspiring writer who felt as if she was climbing the same set of stairs over and over again. She’d worked hard to complete a manuscript, only to have an editor (whom she herself had hired) recommend she rewrite the whole confounded thing. Six months later when she ...
New Mother’s Day Giveaway!
My new Mother’s Day Giveaway is simple: Buy a Cookbook, get a free Baby Blessing!
If you purchase a copy of my award-winning Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook between April 1-30, just CONTACT ME and I’ll put your name in the drawing for an awesome Grand Prize Package.
Back to the Beginning
Remember the scene in everybody’s favorite movie, The Princess Bride, when the Brute Squad is emptying the Thieves Forest by order of Prince Humperdinck and a very stubborn, inebriated Spaniard refuses to leave? Inigo Montoya (played by Mandy Patinkin) has lost his way. His one friend (Fezzik, played by Andre the Giant) has disappeared, and his ...
Tumbleweeds
Every woman has her own organizational style. That’s not to say mine is better than yours, but hey. It is. The scene to your left is what I see every day from my computer chair. It’s my reference file as I slave away on my 365-day Too Blessed to be Stressed devo set to release ...
Radical Grace
Nice slice. I hate your stinkin’ guts. Which of these would you not expect to hear while shaking hands across the tennis net at the end of a match? Well, I’ve heard ’em all. Although the last was supposedly tongue-in-cheek, I suspect there was hidden truth there. (Actually I’m sure of it because it was ...
The Ravages of Spontaneous Degeneration
I’m living a domestic nightmare. Little piles of harmless clutter have gradually turned into lurching Stonehenge precipices that threaten to avalanche and bury my living room. Friends write finger notes to me in the dust on my coffee table. My kitchen sink is evolving back into the frightening pit it once was when excavating down ...
Feb Drawing Winners!
A glorious good morning to you, BBFFs! Actually, it’s 5 a.m. as I’m writing this, so it’s hard to tell how glorious it is in the pitch dark, but, hey, I have faith. I was too excited to sleep with the 3 new winners of the Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook drawing dancing in ...
Pooh on PAH
“Am I beautiful, even though I am the only person looking at me?” I saw this question on the blog of a lovely young writer named Barb Abel, a single mom of two who wrestles with self-esteem. I think it sums up the space many of us occupy: Do we respect ourselves enough to consider ...
Eating Stress-Free & Healthy Winners
Congrats to these Too Blessed to be Stressed winners in the first leg of my Weight Loss Challenge! (And YES, even if you missed out the first time, you’ll have a second chance to join the challenge … read on!) Of all the brave souls accepting the challenge to lose 3 pounds in 3 weeks during ...
Gettin’ Antsy
I’m happy to introduce guest blogger Phyllis McKinley to you today. I loved her response to my weight loss challenge (scroll back to the previous few posts if you’re in the dark about my Eating Stress-Free & Healthy in 2016 Contest). I hope you’ll join Phyllis and me today! Hey, we’ll even pro-rate losing 3-lbs ...