Olive Oil and Windows

copyright 2011 Bettina Network, inc. Ed. Note:  We had three letters from people who use the Bettina Network about the Olive Oil blog.  I have tried to combine them into one blog taking the different points made by each one so all the information from all three letters is contained herein.  Hopefully, I have been…

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Post Office Failing?

comment received from a Bettina Network bed & breakfast guest about the blog “Why the Post Office is Failing? “Thank you for that blog.  Really, one truly never knows what will appear on your blog.   I was delighted to see this topic because it has to do with one of my pet peeves –…

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The Trek from Home to School 2011

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 “It is that time of year when the exodus starts – from home to school; from what is known culturally, socially, economically, food-wise and more to something new.  It is the Exodus from, not the biblical-type Exodus to.  For some of us that biblical Exodus will never happen.  For the…

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Anti-Perspirant Follower

A blog from a guest at a Bettina home I have been reading your blogs on giving up deodorant and anti-perspirants.  That is quite brave of you because we all know people in our society now judge you as immoral if you have any odor at all.  In fact, we are beginning to judge people…

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Is Deodorant/Anti-Perspirant Necessary?

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 We have had quite a time of it with this topic.  It all started when we received a request from a guest to please follow up on how to live an organic life without smelling when you give up, especially anti-perspirants. Several of us took up the challenge.  We will…

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Industrialization of Information

copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2011 What follows is a summary – as best we could – of a very interesting breakfast conversation in one of the bed & breakfast homes in the Bettina Network, inc.  It is a woefully inadequate summary, but it is one we think you will understand from the bits and…

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A Political Breakfast Conversation

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 Neither politics nor religion are off-limits at the Bettina breakfast tables.  I have tried to report on several, but some I didn’t understand as one or another host family tried to give me a synopsis of breakfast table conversations they thought were particularly interesting. This one was very relevant and…

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Beauty in 2011

copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2011 “This is the year I throw out my cosmetics and follow organic beautify treatments.  Not organic cosmetics, but organic foods used the way I have been using cosmetics. I was part of a fantastic breakfast conversation at one of the Bettina Network bed and breakfasts which talked about –…

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Time to Get Back to Work

copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2011 Well, 2011 is well on its way to becoming 2012 and before that happens it is time for us to get back to work. We have a few emails from our bed & breakfast guests who read Bettina’s Blog. Let’s start the New Year with a great suggestion for…

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From a Guest on Cayenne Pepper

“Before I get swept away by the holidays, I want to thank you for a wonderful blog. Keep up the good work, I’ve used so many of your ideas and I am very grateful. Some have been real life savers. We also had a wonderful stay at a bed & breakfast in Harvard Square Cambridge…

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