Growing Old
A New World Order
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2015 We first heard of a “New World Order” when George Bush was president and let those words slip. We want to pick up those words and expand and change what that means – just a little. We live and see others prosper as we recapture the past and move into the future world…
Read MoreThe Rev. Dr. Lillian D. Anthony, my friend
by: Marceline Donaldson, president Bettina Network Foundation, inc. There are some people one expects to go on forever, but none of us lives forever. Lillian was a force of nature. Her strength came from the clear, truthful, fearless and love filled way she lived her life. I have always called Lillian ‘my friend’, but…
Read MoreMaking Old Feet New Again!
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2014 I love breakfast in a Bettina Home. No matter how horrible I feel arriving, I leave refreshed. The last breakfast from my most recent stay was great! The food is always good, but the conversation unbelievable. I am going home to work on my feet so I can wear high…
Read MoreGoing to the Toilet
copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. What a horrible title for a blog! We have postponed writing this blog for a couple weeks, but it has been such a great find and the topic of several breakfasts so with fear and trepidation – here goes!!!!!! We discovered – would you believe across the breakfast table –…
Read MoreHealth and Beauty Tips – Who Holds Truth?
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 We had a wonderful breakfast with a small group of ladies all over 80 and I am under 35. It was not what I was used to, but I am going to change my lifestyle. I learned a lot, laughed harder than I ever have in life, and have some…
Read MoreA Tribute to The Rev. Patricia Riley Colenback (1931-2013)
taken from “Alla Bozarth-Campbell’s – From Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978 Bakerwoman God Bakerwoman God, I am your living Bread. Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well-kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth-hands. I…
Read MoreThanks for your Presidential Post!
I would like to add just a couple things, which I think need to be highlighted: We read lots about minorities playing the “race card.” No one has said one word about the races taking place today – presidential and otherwise where one person running is blatantly using the ‘race card’ against their opponent. For…
Read MoreLifted from Vogue Magazine
We hope Vogue Magazine doesn’t object, but the end of an article in the August 2012 magazine about Bel(le) Kaufman was too good not to share with you. It puts so succinctly what its like to grow oldl The entire article is worth reading, but the ending is really special. It follows: “I’ve lived a…
Read MoreIn Memory of Roger Fisher
by: Marceline Donaldson Sprinkled through Bettina Network’s Blog you will find memories of people we knew and with whom we have interacted over the years. This time, it is someone who was one of those – along with Larry Susskind of MIT – who were majorly responsible for the growth and survival of Bettina Network,…
Read MoreA CALL TO ACTION
copyright 2011 Bettina Network, inc. There are larger and larger pockets of people, organizations, families who are interested in their health – outside the so-called healthcare industry – and who are very disenchanted with the way the health of the average world citizen is being negatively affected by the joining forces of the technology industry,…
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