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 ...
Baby Steps Toward a Healthier You
DIET: Did I Eat THAT??? New year, new rear. Ha! Ya gotta love the 2016 Weight Watchers slogan. Short. Concise. Chock-full of hope. Exactly what we all want to feel at the start of a brand new year – hope, right? And that’s what I’m hearing from my BBFF’s (Blessed Blog Friends Forever) who have ...
New Contest for the New Year!
Giving away 5 of these! I’m super excited about the success of my new Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook (over 100 recipes that each require less than 20 minutes hands-on prep time!) and I want you to be excited too. So I’m giving more copies away! Since the beginning of a new year is such a good time to ...
Wanna Try a Crazy Recipe?
My own Cheese-Broccoli Chowder It’s been a blast hearing from the fine folks who’ve tried the stress-free recipes in my Too Blessed to be Stressed Cookbook since its release in November. Thanks so much for your terrific feedback and kind words – I read each and every comment and am very, very thankful that you ...
No Substitutes
Last Christmas as I prepared to host a dinner party, I was in a quandary about what to serve for dessert. I settled on a low-calorie pie recipe that looked super scrumptious in the magazine photo. All the regular cheesecake ingredients had been replaced with fat-free, sugar-free substitutes, topped with fat-free whipped topping and drizzled ...
Holiday Stress-Saving Tips from YOU
Many thanks to all who entered my recent Cookbook contest; today I’d like to share with you some of the terrific cooking decom-stressing tips submitted by the fine folks who entered the drawing. If yours isn’t included, please forgive me. Wish I could include them all, but I didn’t have enough pages. Once again, congrats ...