Making Connections
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…
Read MoreBeautiful and Elegant Skin!!
copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2011 well, we have once again stumbled upon one of the fountains of elegance! Can’t say youth because that is a fallacy! Everything that looks good is called “young”. That is a bad habit we should break – soon! Try this and when you look in the mirror you will…
Read MoreIndustrialization 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreSo Much To Do – So Little Time
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2011 A Bettina Host Family’s Reflections “After reading your blog on Rev. Gomes and looking at my own life – this may be a morbid post, but it is where I am at the moment and I think it needs to be said. It is great being a host family in…
Read MoreHail Mr. Gomes
copyright the Bettina Network, inc. 2011 by The Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett The Rev. Professor Mr. Peter Gomes – internationally known as Harvard University’s pastor – died February 28, 2011. He was 68 years old. The Rev. Gomes was such a presence within “the college” and its environs that to say he will be…
Read MoreLooking for Homes to join the Bettina Network
From now through March, 2011 we will be scouring the country for new homes to add to the Bettina Network, inc. If you have a home you would like to use to accommodate bed & breakfast guests, call us to find out more about the possibilities. We have homes ranging from two bedroom apartments, where…
Read MoreFrom 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…
Read MoreA NEW BREAKFAST HABIT – FRESH COFFEE
The Bettina Network, inc. copyright 2010 We have started a new tradition, thanks to a guest, from Oxford in England, who makes Espresso for himself every morning with a popcorn popper and good, green espresso coffee beans. It was a fascinating conversation to realize something which I had dismissed as complicated, time-consuming, etc. is being…
Read MoreWhat Causes Obesity in Children?
What follows is a synopsis of a breakfast discussion and a copy of what I put on Linkedin because the breakfast discussion and the question under the “White House Linkedin Group” were the same. The Linkedin question was “What causes obesity in children?” The Bettina breakfast discussion was – why is it so hard to…
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