WHAT IS BED & BREAKFAST?

The term “bed & breakfast” has been garnering more and more excitement over the years.  Every corporation, small business, mom and pop shop, wants to gain in their marketing and advertisement so they add things that are totally irrelevant to their businesses in the hope that you will be fooled into thinking they are “bed…

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Sexism 101 – Father Figure Problems

copyright 2015 Bettina Network, inc. One guest brought a problem to the breakfast table. She was late arriving and most people were ready to leave. Her agitated state made all of us stay and the resulting conversation, we felt, belonged on your blog. We deal with sexism in all ways and places.  Mostly, we talk…

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Thanks for the Sandra Bland blog

It is amazing how little there is about Sandra Bland in the major media outlets.  What is there that I have heard talks about her committing suicide and whatever else negative could be found. I am sending this list, which I got from the FMF (Feminist Movement Foundation) newsletter.  I think Sandra Bland needs to…

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Donald Trump? How to ruin a great breakfast!

A brief breakfast conversation, which most of us killed almost immediately, but not before several points were made: 1) While his first wife was working hard to help develop the Trump empire, the man was womanizing!  And who knows what kind of sexual activity happened after and through the rest of his life and marriages,…

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Sterling and Company

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2014 We should not be amazed when such things happen, but we always claim to be no matter how often we have to act outraged – as though this was an unusual happening for us in these United States. We are especially outraged if this happens in the north – most…

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Live by the Rule of Law – OR –

copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. Live by the Rule of Love! As a host family in the Bettina Network I’ve met all kinds of people, had thousands of conversations around the breakfast table and sometimes have great evenings with complete strangers in front of my wood burning fireplace.  Conversations which changed my life and have…

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Was Susan Rice Used?

copyright Bettina Network, inc. – 2012 RICE = ROGERS = GUINIER.  What do they have in common besides all being African Americans! Was yet another woman used? – misused? – abused?  in this political process? Looks to us as though Ms. Rice’s name was thrown out and then reeled in to get the deal President…

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The Brotherhood

copyright Bettia Network, inc. 2012 for Marceline Donaldson Today, the American Brotherhood is pulling in its antenna and licking its wounds. It will be interesting and very educational to see how they come back from the Sandusky Affair. Normally, the oppressed lose – especially in areas which re-enforce one or more of  society’s isms.  In…

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The Royal Wedding at Breakfast

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 Wouldn’t you know the Royal Wedding would not escape a Bettina breakfast table.  It was a great and very funny discussion.  Basically, how to cure the world’s ills using the 30 to 60 million dollars it is estimated will be the cost of this wedding.  Homelessness, poverty, hunger, etc. could…

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