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It is almost time for Christmas gift wrapping. Of course if you are like me you have been shopping all year and are almost done, right? Well to be honest I have to start in February because I have two brothers and a sister, nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, and a mom to buy…

I recently discovered a product called the Diva Cup and while I was a little unsure about it at first I will say that it truly works.  The Diva Cup is a small cylindrical silicon cup.  It reminded me a little of the diaphragm’s I’ve seen on TV . It is a menstrual cup. If…

Unaware of the compulsion put upon them by the sleeping spirit of Merlin the Magician, fifteen year old Francis Steele and his four friends explore the subterranean chambers of an old ruin. Lost, they escape through a door to the outside only to find themselves in a new and unbelievable world where mammoths draw gigantic…

Stained Glass Hearts: Seeing Life from a Broken Perspective by Pasty Clairmont, discusses how all of lives become broken  because we live in a sin-stained world. Comparing the believer’s life to a stained glass window, Clairmont writes how God builds a beautiful and purposeful life from the broken pieces that we often see as hindrances…

In The Eden Prescription by Ethan Evers, Dr. Elliot Lindell  has come up with a formula, using all natural ingredients, that essentially cures several forms of cancer. Annika Guthrie, while working with Chromogen, secretly gives this formula to cancer patients. Just the formula, nothing else. Miraculously, they all get better. However, they’re all killed off…

It’s that time of the year again when children go back to school and bring home something that you do NOT want….HEAD LICE. I will never forget growing up the one time I had head lice. My mother didn’t even know what it was, my sister had gotten it and since we shared a bed…

Ever since her grandparents gave her a DVD of Swan Lake, twelve-year old Jenny Spark has wanted to be a dancer. But on her first day of ballet class, she suffers a panic attack and makes a horrifying discovery. She’s terrified of dancing in front of the other kids, and as for actually performing for…

I have talked of my affair with Afternoon Tea off and on. In fact my daughter and I have tea together at least once a week. We break out the china and get dressed up and spend an hour pretending we are fine ladies at Bertram’s Hotel (from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.) It is great…