The Morning After

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 Estate Sales should be staffed by psychiatrists and psychologists who are looking for material to use in writing a book about all of us. At some time or other we all pass through – either an estate sale or a bed & breakfast.  We pass through as a guest or…

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Gluten Problems??????????

copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. for Marceline Donaldson Many years ago I worked for The Pillsbury Company – for a brief time – with a long following law suit – which is the stuff of legend around my neighborhood. I offer that fact to you in the interest of full disclosure. One, of the many…

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A 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…

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2013 The Jubilee Year

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 for Marceline Donaldson We declare the year 2013 to be the Year of the Jubilee and a holy, joyous, history making, sin forgiving year! By whose authority? – by our own.  Isn’t that how such things happen!!!! Generations from now, the historical cry will be reported and everyone will forget…

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Conversations about “The Flu”

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 It is amazing how we could be taken over by serious and urgent conversation about something that used to be so common and harmless.  A little worse than a cold, but tolerable and aren’t you glad its over.  A couple days off from work;  lying in bed – reading, eating,…

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Happy New Year! 2013

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 All of us at Bettina Network, inc. wish all of you a very Happy New Year! Our wish for you in 2013 is for much joy – the company of caring people – problems which are immediately solvable – new friends and experiences you would not have dreamed about –…

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Benghazi Tells the Future?

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 Ed Note:  Yes, we had a breakfast conversation – several, in fact, – about the Sandy Hook massacre.  It is too early and people are too tender to join the media massacre of our collective psyche as they posture and jump on this with both feet for days and days…

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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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Estate Sale Finds!

copyright by Bettina Network, inc. 2012 for Marceline Donaldson Estate Sales are one of my passions.  I have been involved with them since about 1965, having owned an Auction Gallery in the Sheraton Ritz Hotel years ago and have barely missed a weekend without some stop at an estate sale in some city. I haven’t…

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A Guest Responds to Rice and Kerry

I read your blog on the Secretary of State fiasco and I am so glad someone has put out there what is actually happening.   I am especially distressed about what I am seeing in the media and hearing about this Susan Rice thing.  Imagine putting such a lovely young woman through such trials because…

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