A Great New Year’s Resolution

copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. We encourage you to follow our example. OUR RESOLUTION FOR 2013:  we will no longer buy at retail stores, shopping malls, etc. – except on that very rare occasion when we can’t stop ourselves – but as time goes on we hope our faith in the system sustains us and…

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A Poem from A Bettina Guest

“I have really enjoyed, learned from and look forward to reading Bettina Network’s Blog.  My contribution to the blog – as a member of the Bettina Network Community (that’s a great idea and I love it – am I going to get a membership card?) – is the following poem.  I keep it all over…

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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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Walnut Oil on Furniture?

copyright 2012 Bettina Network, inc. From a guest and blog reader: Thanks for your blog on using Walnut Oil on wood furniture.  I tried it and it works phenomenally!  I used the Olive Oil and Walnut Oil – half and half.  A friend of mine used Walnut Oil straight from the Spectrum bottle.  She loves…

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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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Lemon Pudding Cake

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 A guest wrote to us with the following request: “We had the perfect breakfast dessert at one of your homes.  It was called a “Lemon Pudding Cake”.  Could we have the recipe?  Didn’t think of asking the host family for the recipe until we got home and destressed from the…

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A Larry Hagman breakfast!

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 Such a discussion.  We need to express sympathy to Larry Hagman’s family on his death.  By all accounts he was a fun, lovely person who has done much good for those around him.  We hope his soul rests in peace. However, a breakfast conversation about Hagman was kind of different.  Everyone…

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