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Welcome to the first Friday check-in for the Winter Shed! Here is the back story about this support group/blog hop for those trying to be accountable for the positive changes we intend to make in our lives in 2013. Whether you are trying to shed weight, find more balance or let go of something else that is dragging […]

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Baking a Difference

by Kathy on December 4, 2012 · 6 comments

in Family, Food, Gratitude, Inspiration

Today my family and I received a special delivery from Jennifer of Still Life with Crockpot. It was the loaf of chocolate chip banana bread that I bid on and won as part of A Half-Baked Life’s recent “Bake a Difference” auction/fundraiser benefitting the United Way Hurricane Sandy Recovery Fund. My kids and I couldn’t wait to […]

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This is the first of four posts in which I will give day by day detailed accounts about my first experience at a BlogHer annual conference as both an attendee and a speaker. I hope these blog entries will give those who have not been to BlogHer before an inside look at what it is […]

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How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fifth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Last week I received an email from a reader letting me know how much my Gatekeepers post has meant to […]

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I’ll admit it, the main reason I signed up to read and review Why Women Need Fat by Dr. William D. Lassek and Dr. Steven J.C. Gaulin, my fifth BlogHer Book Club selection, was because of a line in a summary about it which said something about “why those last five pounds seem impossible to […]

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Last month I got an email from Julie Godar, the Managing Editor at BlogHer (yes, I felt very special). She said that one of her colleagues suggested she contact me (I felt even more special). Julie explained in her email that “BlogHer has a fun new partnership with a company called Gourmet Live – featuring local expertise a la […]

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