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I don't really have any thoughts this fine Monday afternoon. I just have the echo of the wise words of encouragement and advice of Katherine Stewart, a soul beloved to so many. Her beliefs, her philosophy, and her mantra were always summed up in two simple words; "Always Care". That philosophy was more than just a motto; the philosophy in those words were the road map with which she navigated her own life, and the inspiration she instilled in the minds and hearts of the countless people she inspired over the years. "Always Care" was just the way Katherine Stewart, or Katie Bug The Lady Bug, as she was so lovingly known to so many, rolled. And I can tell all of you personally, that the "Always Care" philosophy of life is still relevant and very powerful. I can tell you how many times her words helped me, God Bless You Always and Forever, Mrs. Katherine Stewart. Thank you for all the lives you molded, and the lives, like me, that those lives continue to ...

Healthy Homemade Gluten Free Protein Chocolate Brownies From Scratch Recipe! Best Easy Sugar Free Chocolate Brownies I ngredients: 1 large sweet potato 1 cup almond or oat flour 3/4 cup cocoa powder 1/2 cup maple syrup 2 eggs 1/4 cup almond butter 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp organic salt 1/2 cup unsweetened chocolate chips (paid link) 1/2 cup chopped pecans, almonds, or your preferred nuts How To Make The Best Easy Healthy Sugar Free Chocolate Brownies From Scratch  : Preheat your oven to 350°F and line an 8 x 8" baking pan or  dish with parchment paper. Peel and chop the sweet potato into small pieces, then steam or boil until soft. (You could also bake your sweet potato in the own with the skin on, let it cool, and than scoop it out.) Mash the sweet potato in a bowl until smooth. Add your preferred flour, cocoa powder, maple syrup, almond butter, eggs, vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to the bowl with the sweet po...

JFK actually had a few personal favorite desserts that he loved , but he was well known to especially enjoy his beloved Wife's  Jackie Kennedy Famous Chocolate Fudge Brownies , and also a homemade Kennedy Family treat called Cream Cheese Strawberry Frozen Delight . I just came across a special edition of the recipes for these delicious sweet treats that were loved and enjoyed so very much in the White House and even before then, by John F Kennedy and his family members and guests alike. I will today share them with all of you to savor too! Famous Jacqueline Kennedy Brownies Recipe 2 oz unsweetened chocolate squares 4 oz dairy butter (not margarine) 2 eggs 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour or Gluten-Free Almond Flour 1 tsp vanilla extract  Preheat oven to 325°F degrees. Butter an 8" square pan (glass, ceramic, porcelain, or metal). In a small saucepan, melt the butter on low heat and then stir in the unsweetened chocolate squares and melt them completely, Give a...

My dad had been a Boy Scout for over 50 years. He devoted most of his life to the Boy Scouts Of America and he even had a Boy Scout museum for several years. When he was in the process of the end of his life from cancer that spread to his lungs and liver at age 88, I asked him if he would try to communicate with me somehow  and some time after he passed on and he told me he would try. My dad was also a coin collector a lot of his life. He is the reason I got into coin collecting. I go all over in the area I live in and purchase bags and boxes of old coins to go through and pick out the old coins. He has been gone for going on 5 years now. Last week I was going through a bag of coins and found this penny with a Boy Scout symbol that is punched on this penny the same one that is on his tombstone. I’m thinking to myself what are the odds that I find this rare penny. I said out loud thank you for being a wonderful devotional dad even after leaving this earth! When I was 12 my face was ...

A Warning About Temu Nowadays:  Beware Of Temu Refund Issued Due To Unusual Or Suspicious Activity Repeatedly Or Detected Unusual Activity And Then Suspend Your Account After They Add Them-self To Your Auto Payments On Venmo , Your Credit Card (They Did On My Chase Twice), Your Paypal, Or Your Bank Or Any Auto Pay They Accept For Purchases! I Have Bought Stuff On The Temu App For Several Years And Have NEVER Had This Issue Until 2026, Maybe They Are Getting Revenge Because Of The Tariff War Between US And China ...It's All Gone Bad For Sure! They are known lately for frequently canceling orders for no good reason at all and then issuing refunds due to "unusual payment activity," which trapping their loyal buyers in a web of account restrictions or sometimes even permanently suspended accounts. This is especially common if a customer uses accumulated store credits, makes small orders, or adds a new payment method. Then then are faced with very terrible customer service. In...

Flowers Types For Overcoming Stress And To Feel Nature is Alive The world is full of distractions and artificially created stories like dark scary Halloween, " la Muerte from Mexico" religious holidays, government mind overtaking and nightmares with the purpose of submitting the big masses to their ideas and political, commercial interests, science new inventions etc. People forgotten that getting close to the most insignificant and simple things can make a huge change in their lives to the very point of purifying their souls, physical bodies and providing them with success to live with happiness. If an individual is living behind closed doors and without any human contact for long period of time, this individuals will suffer a loneliness anxious feelings or disease that will prevent them from thinking clear and doing those most important things to accomplish their personal success. And it will lead to depression in older adults men and women. The solution is sharing the time...

19 Top Food Tips and Tricks You Need To Know 1. Never throw out those last drips of jelly or jam in the jar! Instead, just shake up a fruity vinaigrette by adding equal parts oil and vinegar to the jar, shake well, and season with a little bit of salt and pepper to taste! 2. Not really that crazy about veggie burgers, still like meat but want to eat healthy?  Try my burger with veggies recipe instead! Mince a cup of red and green peppers, half a cup of minced onion and smash a couple of garlic cloves. Add these vegetables to a any pound of lean meat (I use turkey burger) and your favorite spices, including Worcestershire sauce, and mix well. When you're browning the meat, blot the surface dry with a paper towel so the meat doesn't release moisture when it hits the hot oil. Too much moisture makes the meat steam instead of sear, and you will lose that rich brown crust. Top it off with your favorite mayonnaise  I adore Hellman's brand, Wasabi sauce, and a splash of lemon or l...

A Giant Lot of Books For Sale Online Girls /Teens / Preteen Young Adult Books GoodReads! Here we have a wholesale book lot of some of the best must read chapter books to read for older girls and preteen kids, teenager/young adults...some are even on the "Top Highly Recommended Books/Novels of MustReads List". My cousin recently relocated overseas to Panama and her daughters are now grown. She will sell the whole lot of 30 slightly-used English-language must read children's books (some are Paperback and some are Hardcover) + Free Bonus Set of 20 Postcards From Around the World for $15 total or best offer. You can either pay in person and pick up in the vicinity of Chico / Los Angeles or pay by Venmo, CashApp or Paypal and have them shipped directly to you anywhere in the United States. All of these books/novels are in excellent conditions for one very low price to sell them quickly! Ten Chapter Books by Beverly Cleary (5 Hardcovers and 5 Paperbacks) Six  Chapter  Books by ...

Well, another Christmas is done. It gets different every year that I grow older. This year was no big family get together. Just me and my spouse, my Aunt Michelle, a couple of close friends, and our dog and cats. I did decorate the house some and put up the Christmas tree. We had a pot roast for dinner and peppermint ice cream for dessert.  We all recalled memories of Christmases past, family and friends and pets gone. Remembering traditions,  the sights, sounds, scents and tastes of memories of Christmases gone. It was kind of sad... but also was nice!  Recently, I read a terrific article in our local newspaper online about how, during WWII, when people were living through that nightmare, a number of songs were composed meant to reassure them that one day all would be normal again. Although we are not at war, we are certainly in a time when we dream about life being 'normal' again. As we are currently celebrating the Holidays, let's remember those who may not be home... ...

Here is how to make homemade old fashioned 300 hundred dollar cooked frosting recipe with flour and milk very easily! Please keep in mind that this amount is for a double batch to use on a two-layer cake or large amount of cookies (2 dozen+), etc. If you are making a single layer cake, then simply cut the amount of ingredients in half. This is a recipe that my mother used with her famous banana pecan cake! Gather all of your vanilla icing ingredients: 2 cups whole or 2% milk, or coconut milk for non-dairy 8 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted real dairy butter, at room temperature 2 cups granulated sugar, not powdered confectioners sugar! 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Begin by whisking together the milk, flour, and salt in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk the mixture constantly while cooking, for 5 minutes, or until no lumps remain and the mixture thickens, resembling a smooth pudding. Remove the saucepan from the heat and let ...

When I was 6 years old, we had lived in an apartment complex where the people who lived on both sides of me also had kids the same age as me and my brother. We were all friends and played together all the time.  One day, while my mom was drinking coffee with a neighbor at her apartment of number 4 ( we had lived in apt. 3) and we were all playing card games on the kitchen floor, our other neighbor from apartment 7 came in asking if we had seen her 3 year old son, Sammy. None of us had seen him, so we started to help her look for him around the neighborhood.  About 20 minutes in, my neighbor from apt. 4 found him and pulled him out of a front yard pond from a house across the street.  Sammy  didn't make it and his family moved out immediately after that day. We stayed in touch for a few months following but gradually lost contact.  Quite some time had passed, when one night, I had a dream about the little boy,  Sammy,  who had passed. In the dream I saw...

I'm currently eating Taco Bell in the Walmart parking lot because it's Taco Tuesday . Also, because that's the American Way . While waiting in Taco Bell's drive-thru, an elderly lady in the car behind me was taking her order and she asked them: "Do you take debit cards? Then much louder, "Do you take debit cards?! Okay, then I'll have a cheeseburger." If I could, I would have made her that burger myself.  I really did miss the version of me that was more spiritually and mentally aware , health conscious, and used to meditate in the sun and journal while sitting outside with my feet in the grass. I used to make art and enjoy the simple things in life. I knew what to do but I was not doing it. I feel like the journal was the key, and the rest fell in place after that .I am unsure where I had went and why I had left, but I am back, hence this blog which isn't just for myself but for all of you. It’s the ebb and flow of life. My favorite saying is as ...

The bacon and chicken stuffing (aka dressing) and diced sweet potatoes are prepped and ready for the oven in a few hours! Finishing up the turkey and the pies first. I made myself a nice little cocoa and banana chocolate chip mug cake as a treat for working hard today. It came out extremely delicious! (Banana as a replacement for the eggs). So excited to see family and friends this evening!  Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Regardless of where you are in the world today, I hope your day is very joyful, and filled with much love and many blessings!  Don't worry about anything but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart. And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:6-7  With all of that being stated, now I will share an odd story that happened to me on a Thanksgiving long ago when I was still in college. I'd like to say that all types of ...

Something my Grandma taught me from a very young age was the value of things. And in that , was the value of money. Grandma had this amazing way of teaching valuable life lessons. She knew I probably wouldn't listen if she just explained it. I was a fairly hyper active child. So instead, she would just go about her business in a way that would make you ask questions. One of those life lessons she taught me about was an old scraggly wild apple tree growing next to the drive way. By all rights it should have been cut down. It was in the way when the driveway was plowed, a pain to mow around, and it didn't add much in looks concerning her lawn, which she was particular about. But she wouldn't hear of it. Nope, not her. She loved that apple tree. She would marvel at the fruit blossoms. Strong storms would usually shred a few branches off. One time, it's trunk was split by lightening. But it didn't come down. Somehow she got grandpa to chain the trunk back together.  Hom...

When I hear the song, "Famous Last Words" by My Chemical Romance, I immediately tear up. The reason I am even mentioning it is because last night at a Christmas light festival, I heard someone playing it. It isn't even in my usual music genre, but this song was played in the car the morning I took my cousin Shelby Thomas to her last surgery before she passed away of ovarian cancer.  Shelby was my best childhood friend.   I had never heard any songs by that band before , but this song's lyrics and chords resonated in the moment so I looked it up and listened to it on repeat as I waited in the waiting room of the hospital. I was so anxious sitting on pins and needles, this song kept me calm and centered. I was NOT created to worry and I was NOT created to fear. After finding out she had died, I never took this song off of the playlist. I didn’t listen to anything else for a long while after. Not even an over exaggeration. The meaningful Famous Last Words lyrics really ...

Just wanted to share some experiences from my haunted childhood home experiences that I’ve never really been able to make sense of. Part of me is convinced that maybe it’s just overactive childhood imagination since I haven’t really experienced anything since I’ve grown up. I guess I just wanted to post here on my blog to see what you all think and to get some things off my chest that I’ve never really been able to speak about.  A vivid experience I had was when I was probably around 10 years old. I remember I was laying on my bed reading when I suddenly got a really dreadful feeling. I looked up from the page and it looked like my room was either foggy or smoky, it was hard to tell. I stood up and backed up to my bedroom door, my hand was just under the handle when I felt a big splash of water fall onto my hand. I jerked my hand around to look at it and it was dry. I was astonished as I continued to watch what looked like either smoke or fog rising from the floor of my bedroom up ...

My Grandma's Homemade Crispy Southern Pan Fried Okra Recipe  Ingredients: 2 pounds fresh okra, sliced into 1/2"-inch bite-sized rounds 2 large eggs, beaten (room temperature) 2 cups whole milk or buttermilk (room temperature) 2 cups yellow cornmeal 2 tsp salt 1 tsp black pepper 2 tsp garlic powder (optional) Cooking oil for frying (vegetable or pork oil) How To Make Best Pan Fried Okra : Best Homemade Fried Okra Recipe This was my Grandma 's old fashioned southern way of frying okra, she was raised in Louisiana:  First, wash, trim, and slice the okra. Then thoroughly combine the already-beaten egg and the milk in a large bowl. Soak the okra in the room-temperature egg and milk mixture, never cold but only room temperature. Soak the okra for about 15 minutes (hopefully okra is already tender when bought). In another bowl, mix the yellow cornmeal, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Heat your preferred cooking oil in a skillet (cast iron is always BEST) over medium-high heat (a...

A Rose For Emily and The Cask Of Amontillado Short Story Similarities : Any Great Wine Can Go Bad and Every Rose Does Have Its Thorn! The most obvious similarities in the protagonists, Miss Emily Grierson, of the short story, “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and Montressor, of the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe are that they deal with their revengeful murders in gruesome fashions to satisfy their own selfish justifications. Both of the stories end with a definite expression that a character has died. However, in "A Rose For Emily", the main character, Emily has just died and another dead body has been discovered as well. This dead body is assumed to be Emily's murder victim, Homer Barron. There are further similarities and differences too, between the main characters of Emily Grierson and of Montressor. These are that Montresor’s motive is related to insult and Miss Emily’s motive is related to love, Montressor has no intention of ever bei...

Regardless if you believe in paranormal activity like tales of the dark side or not,  I want to share a scary ghost story that truly happened when I was younger. I was 9 and my brother Kyle was 6 / 7 years old. We moved around quite frequently during my whole childhood in Los Angeles and we had just moved into a new town and the house we lived in was large. If I remember correctly there were 5 bedrooms and 2 and 1/2 bathrooms. From the moment we moved in, there were strange noises and it always seemed to feel very dark and depressive. My dog would often sit and bark or growl towards the top of the stairs leading above the garage and also would stare and growl at ceiling above kitchen going into dining room (seemingly without any reason, no noises or anything like that). The home had been renovated and had additions not only on both sides and in the back, but also upwards, second story and rooms above the garage.  My little brother and I was sharing a medium-sized bedroom, our ...

Today, November 11 is not only a US Veterans Day holiday honoring in remembrance all military personnel who have served the United States Of America at any point in history, but we also get to celebrate my mom on her birthday!   Happy birthday Mom. You are so very loved and missed here. I choose to use this day to celebrate you. It's been many years since your passing, but I still think about you every single day. November is my second favorite month of the year (May is my first), although it also brings some sadness because of today being my Mom's day of birth. I always celebrate it every year by doing things she loved to do like checking out antique shops and eating Chinese food! It's two things that are so simple, but that she always thoroughly enjoyed. It brings me joy too. Oh, by the way, if you haven't already, check out the new Frankenstein movie by Guillermo Del Toro on Netflix. It is now one of my favorites! I feel like a true role model is somebody who lives u...