Category: books

All right, I’ll admit it: I love food. Whether it’s a hodgepodge of leftovers thrown together for a casserole or a staged 4-course dinner, sitting down with my family and/or friends and eating said food with them; that to me is pure bliss. . . .

In this new Chicken Soup for the Soul: Food and Love – 101 Stories Celebrating Special Times with Family and Friends … and Recipes Too!, you will read about people, young and old, who took a chance, or went out on a limb, just put it all out there, to give their family or friends a meal or a dish, worth remembering how much they are loved.

Hello, Slow-Cooker! Seriously, why have I NEVER thought to make a meal using both slow-cookers I own?! I haven’t as far as I recall ever used a cookbook so much since I first got it as I have Cheryl Moeller’s Creative Slow-Cooker Meals: Use Two Slow Cookers for Tasty and Easy Dinners.

My family doesn’t like ‘casseroles’ much, so I generally am still making a side dish in the oven or in the microwave if I’m making my meat dish in the slow-cooker. But not anymore!

Faced with having his sister taken away from his care to her abusive father, and trying hard to provide for her, 17 year old Abel Tannatak seems down right frightening to his schoolmates. Through a chance finding of six year old Micha’s doll, Anna Leeman becomes part of a fairy tale that may or may not have a happy ending.

Abel is “The Storyteller” and the fairy tale is woven to entertain Micha, but it starts becoming an analogy for what is happening in reality.

Anna may be in over head, or is that possible when you’re in love?

Jump-Start Your Diet…
Detox Your System…
Lose a Dress Size…
Shrink Your Love Handles . . .

…with this two-day diet program that helps you get healthy for life.

Start Friday night with a juice or green smoothie dinner. Then have an all-liquid Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch, followed by a raw food dinner Sunday night.

Every good story is about a sword…or maybe every sword had a good story? Either way, The Amber Treasure is a story about a sword, well sort of…it’s actually a story about a boy who becomes a man and a sword, well actually a number of them play a large role in it.

The Amber Treasure is the first book in the Northern Crown Series by Richard Denning. This historical fiction novel takes place in England in the beginning of the Middle Ages.

Have you ever heard of The Daniel Fast?  It is traditionally a three week ‘fast’ that is put together from the Biblical knowledge we have of Daniel’s fasting experience.  During the 21 days you eat healthy foods such as vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts, whole grains, seeds and oils.  The Daniel Fast avoids foods such as meat, sugar, dairy, sweeteners (real and artificial), refined foods, processed foods, yeast, solid fats and deep-fried food.  Although it is not liquid in nature it is still considered a fast, and is easier for people to adhere to since you are eating solid foods.

Being happy isn’t always the easiest thing to do.  When we’re always on the go expending our time and energy, sometimes feeling like we’re on a treadmill and not really going anywhere, happy is the furthest thing from our mind.  I find myself asking “Why Me?” some days and then catch myself, because I know I DO have a lot to be happy about.

The stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Find Your Happiness will help you gain a better picture of what it means to be happy

5 ½ years ago we sold our 3200 square foot home and down sized.  We bought a condo that had half the square footage.  That brought with it a small dilemma.  What do you keep, and what do you part with?  And an even bigger dilemma, where do you put what you kept?

For some people the size of our home is still large, they live in an even tinier space with more people.  Creativity for storage becomes a must.

I just got finished reading a book called Small Space Organizing by Kathryn Bechen. 

52 Small Changes: One Year to a Healthier, Happier You by wellness expert and best-selling author Brett Blumenthal.

This “how-to” manual for achieving a state of optimal health and wellness outlines fifty-two weeks of small, yet productive changes that readers can make to live a happier, healthier life. Why fifty-two?