Posts by anitteb
A Final Tribute
Ed. Note: Because we had so much response to the Bettina Network Blog on Whitney Houston and because we had questions we couldn’t properly answer and comments we didn’t want to put in the blog – there would have been many by now – mostly repetitive – we decided to reprint (with permission) – this…
Read MoreGood Words around the Breakfast Table
“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” Eleanor Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ Learn More About How We Use Your Donation! [give_form id=”3763″] ______________________________________________________________ Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us. Ed. Note:…
Read MoreThanks for the Whitney Houston Blog!
copyright 2012 Bettina Network, inc. I read the blog and was homesick for my Bettina fix – to use the current language being thrown around about Whitney Houston! I love staying in your homes. You didn’t say which home had this breakfast conversation. It doesn’t matter. I’ve stayed in two different homes, loved every minute…
Read MoreWhitney Houston Around the Breakfast Table!
copyright 2012 Bettina Network, inc. One never knows in which direction breakfast table talk will go! Talking around a table with people you don’t know and probably won’t meet again, but there you are, breaking bread with strangers who feel like old friends. It is an incredibly freeing experience. Ed Note: That is one of…
Read MoreA Reflection at Life’s End!
copyright 2012 Bettina Network You have chosen to sing someone else’s song. You have chosen to dream someone else’s dream You have chosen to live someone else’s life – and – so you have chosen to die alone, grieved intensely, by those who watched your pain grow and consume your life. While your…
Read MoreTrinity Church Organ Concert
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 THE PLACE TO BE on Fridays at noon is Trinity Episcopal Church in Copley Square, Boston, MA. This past Friday there was an astounding organ concert played by Richard Webster (Trinity’s Music Director and Organist) and Colin Lynch (Trinity’s Assistant Organist). To walk into the Church and see the organ…
Read MoreFinally! No Anti-Perspirants Needed!!!!
copyright 2012 Bettina Network, inc. We have been working on this problem for a couple years. How to live in polite society without using either deodorant or anti-perspirants. We are convinced that the way many anti-perspirants work, using aluminum to stop your pores to prevent you sweating and therefore to keep you smell- free is…
Read MoreThe New Hampshire Primary, etc.
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 I know there are discussions going on around the Bettina Network about the Republican Primary. That is all you can get when you turn on the news, but I see almost no one has sent in their breakfast discussion as a blog, probably because they have a strong religious component…
Read MoreA Wonderful Concord Christmas Story
copyright Bettina Network, inc. for Barbara Marden 2011 A few days before Christmas I was giving a friend’s out of town visitor a tour of the house. My friends six year old son David was with us and did he get excited when I showed him a secret place to store treasures. It was in…
Read MoreAlabama’s first licensed black female pilot dies at 90
Published: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 12:16 PM Updated: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 12:35 PM By The Associated Press Mildred Carter, pictured here in 2003, shows her pilot’s license from 1941. (The Birmingham News/ file photo) TUSKEGEE, Alabama — Mildred Carter, who was Alabama’s first licensed black female pilot, has died. She was 90. Funeral services for Carter will…
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