Our Blog is a conglomeration of conversations which took place around the breakfast table in one or another Bettina Network home. We cover a wide range of topics.

As members of the Bettina Network Community send us information they would like disseminated to a large audience, or something happens which just strikes our fancy and we want to share it with all of you - it will go immediately to Bettina Network's Blog.

Dessert Breadsticks from a Reader

By anitteb | June 12, 2009

What follows was sent to us by a bed & breakfast guest in response to the recipe for “Dessert Breadsticks” “Thank you for this wonderful recipe and its story. I used to take my grandchildren to tea every Saturday afternoon and they loved it. After trying your recipe I have an alternate suggestion: with my…

The Bettina Network, Inc’s Expanding

By anitteb | June 11, 2009

copyright 2009 The Bettina Network, inc. We are expanding our business to include Estate Sales and Liquidations.  It is a business which helps us move one step further into vertical integration. Several people involved with the Bettina Network have had much experience with antiques, estate sales and related matters, some for over 40 years, so…

Who is that woman on the Harley?

By anitteb | June 3, 2009

copyright 2009 The Bettina Network, inc. Marceline Donaldson It’s my GRANDMOTHER? At age 15 I took my first and, until now, last ride on a motorcycle after Church one Sunday when a friend offered me a ride on his Harley.  My grandmother heard about it before I returned from a ride around the block and…

Bread Sticks Dessert for Breakfast

By anitteb | June 3, 2009

copyright 2009 The Bettina Network, Inc. These breakfast bread sticks are a really terrific after breakfast dessert which can be ‘knoshed’ on all day. We discovered the recipe while having afternoon tea at Young Quinlan & Co., an elegant store in Minneapolis which, unfortunately, has been closed for a few decades.  It was a great…

Divining at Breakfast

By anitteb | May 28, 2009

by Marceline Donaldson copyrighted to Marceline Donaldson 2009 We had a really fun and interesting breakfast a few days ago.  We had the opportunity to watch one of our guests use a V shaped tree branch in the dining room to find water.  She walked around with the divining rod, which she broke off the…

Bettina’s Box of Shame

By anitteb | April 21, 2009

  copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2009 Bettina’s Box of Shame is for those who violate their own propaganda and policies and whose violations hurt the rest of us.  Three times in “Bettina’s Box of Shame” lands you on “Bettina’s Hall of Shame.” Earning its way into “Bettina’s Box of Shame” today is WHOLE FOODS…

LIFE

By anitteb | April 21, 2009

copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2009 The part of the journey we call life is a movement through time. ____________________________________________________________ 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…

Nuller and VanSlyck in Concert

By anitteb | April 2, 2009

copyright by Bettina Network 2009                       New School of Music Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 3pm                              25 Lowell Street                         …

Lipstick

By anitteb | March 21, 2009

Sent to us in an email from Dr. Robert Perry ON 3/20/2009: THIS BLOG HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN – EITHER TEMPORARILY, PERMANENTLY OR WILL BE REPLACED WITH OTHER INFORMATION! We received an email from a reader who said the following “There is no such doctor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital – this has been debunked…

Foot Health and Comfort

By anitteb | March 17, 2009

copyright by The Bettina Network, inc. 2009 On Patriot’s Day week-end in the Harvard Square area, during the time of the Boston Marathon, one of our homes generally fills with guests from Canada. Several years ago one of these guests gave us a ‘tip’ which he uses to get through the 26 miles of the…