Women Food and God: an unexpected path to almost everything is written by Geneen Roth, who has written many books about compulsive eating and weight. She will be presenting a program at Kripalu in Lenox, MA this September. She has been on the Oprah show and some of her writings are on Oprah's website as well. … Continue reading Women Food and God
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Kate Braestrup at Kennebooks
Kennebooks in Kennebunk hosted a book reading and signing Thursday evening with Kate Braestrup. She is a Chaplain for the Maine Warden Service by day...and author by night (well, this night, anyway). The bookstore staffers let us know that Kate would be arriving late, but then they started bringing out the refreshments, so the crowd … Continue reading Kate Braestrup at Kennebooks
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Garden Update
Things are really doing well this year. I've been picking zucchini, yellow squash, string beans, and sugar snap peas for a while now. I thought I'd picked the last strawberry last week, but then the funky pink-flowered strawberry plant that I found at the Portland Farmer's Market a few months ago produced a couple more! … Continue reading Garden Update
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Book clubs
Our book club's first meeting was at Mike's Clam Shack in Wells. What we have in common: 1. We are a group of six local women. We ranged in age from 34 (but looks like 28 was the consensus!) to mid fifties. 2. All of us knew somebody but none of us knew everybody (except one!) before … Continue reading Book clubs
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New baby gift
Maybe you have a lot of new babies to buy for this year. After a long time with the arrival of no babies within my personal sphere of (gift-buying) influence, I find that having just finished putting together a gift for one new baby girl, I have two more baby girls in the picture. One … Continue reading New baby gift
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life’s too short…
to read bad books. i loved the book Eat, Pray, Love by elizabeth gilbert (http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove.htm) and was every much looking forward to the release of her new book Committed. i waited for weeks on the library wait list for it and finally the day came! it had arrived! i picked it up right away and couldn't … Continue reading life’s too short…
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summer wish list Top Ten
Remember every fall when your new teacher would ask you to write an essay on "what I did on my summer vacation"? and you could never think of a thing? Well, how about getting a jump on things this year by writing "what I am going to do on my summer vacation"! Inspired by Laura … Continue reading summer wish list Top Ten
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the gym
when i go to the gym, i bring a book (for distraction from stairmaster), am if it's a day i have to go immediately to work, a clothing change. oh, and car keys (except for once, but that's another story). goal: get in, work out, then get out as fast as i can. it's interesting to me that others … Continue reading the gym
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parting is such…(insert oxymoronic phrase)
my best work friend is moving on to greener pastures in the workforce...happy for her, sad for me. of course,we plan to stay in touch and have even gone so far as to devise ways to accomplish this (we don't live near each other), but it is still happy/sad. In The Happiness Project (http://www.happiness-project.com/), author … Continue reading parting is such…(insert oxymoronic phrase)
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diary of a wimpy kid
whenever there is a movie that gets my child to request (and then to actually read) the book that spawned it, i am happy. this month it happened in reverse; the movie of which i speak is "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid". we are having my daughter's 11th birthday party at Smitty's (http://www.smittyscinema.com/) and … Continue reading diary of a wimpy kid
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