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eBook: I Am XL

Featured Work: I Am XL The Story of Chantal’s Journey in Weight Loss Introduction: I could say it all began in February of 2008, but that wouldn’t really be true.  What probably is true is that it all began in January of 1968, when I was born. All the food choices my mother made for me when [...]

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Program Scripts

Program Scripts   Group Christmas Program Narration, December 2011 For our program, I took the musical and other offerings of our students and arranged them into a program entitled Gifts and Giftings with the attached narration.  A great portion of it is Scripture. Norwalk First UMC Christmas Cantata Canticle of Joy by Joseph M. Martin, [...]

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Always With Us

Always With Us   Written for JournEzine‘s Christmas Story Contest, 2011.

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A Beekeeper’s Christmas

A Beekeeper’s Christmas   If you didn’t get to hear the gift exchange story, here it is. A Beekeeper’s Christmas Merry Christmas to all our beekeeping friends in Lorain County Beekeepers Association and elsewhere.

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HomeSchool Group Brochure

HomeSchool Group Brochure The Introductory Brochure put together by the North Fairfield HomeSchool Group Core Team, edited and formatted by me.

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Guide to Starting a Diaper Service

Guide to Starting a Diaper Service The plain-speaking, easy-to-read guide for those who are contemplating starting a diaper service of any kind.

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Guide to Home Washing Your Baby’s Diapers

Guide to Home Washing Your Baby’s Diapers For parents who wish to learn how to wash their own baby’s cloth diapers at home.

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Guide to Home Washing for Others

Guide to Home Washing for Others For people interested in starting a diaper service in their homes.

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Leaky Baby

Leaky Baby? For parents and their cloth-diapered babies.

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Sweet Treasure

Sweet Treasure Written as part of my coursework for the Institute of Children’s Literature writing course clear back in 1997…wow. Unfortunately, I never followed through on getting it published; I was taking care of my two very young children and trying to manage a work-at-home business at the same time. Working from home when you [...]

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The Promise

The Promise Co-authored with Deb Ott for JournEzine‘s Christmas Story Contest, 2010.

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Rollaway Ralph: Version 1 or Version 2?

Rollaway Ralph Version 1 or Version 2? In 1989 I took a creative writing class as part of my degree work at Kansas Wesleyan University.  Rollaway Ralph was written, I think as the final assignment, for that class.  I won’t share with you the original version; it needed a lot of work and is much [...]

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Ethel’s Grape Tomatoes

Ethel’s Grape Tomatoes Written for Heirloom Solutions blog, although unfortunately when they published it, they cut it off.  Read it here instead.

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Rotten Through and Through

Rotten Through and Through Written as part of my coursework for the Institute of Children’s Literature writing course clear back in 1997…wow. Unfortunately, I never followed through on getting it published; I was taking care of my two very young children and trying to manage a work-at-home business at the same time.  Working from home [...]

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Newspaper Articles

Newspaper Articles Lorain County Beekeepers: Looking For a Hive of Their Own Angel Food Ministries: September 2008 November 2009 Church: Cantata 2010 Robots Take Cleveland By Storm: The Register gave me a byline. =] (This same article also appeared in the Norwalk Reflector.) Young Beekeeper Wins Honors at Fair The Reflector used my submission as [...]

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Press Releases

Press Releases   WAHM Open House: December, 2011 Angel Food Ministries: October 2008 December 2008 Homeschooling: Open House Lorain County Beekeepers: 2011 Scholarship North Fairfield Farmer’s Market: May 12 June 04 July 02 July 16 Open Air Market  

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Gardening

Gardening In December of 2010 I was hired to write gardening articles for Heirloom Solutions, a brand new, Christian, heirloom seed company. Talk about perfect. I love to garden.  I love to garden organically.  And I love how gardening works toward fulfilling the stewardship mandate. Put all that together with my love for writing and I happily [...]

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Ideas for Purposeful Parenting

Ideas for Purposeful Parenting This ebook came together as a result of the talk I gave to the Mothers of PreSchoolers (MOPS) group.  I had so many ideas I wanted to share and of course, a limited amount of time to speak, so I decided to put them all down on paper. And wow, the [...]

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Purposeful Parenting

Purposeful Parenting Ever feel like you’re all alone as a mom? Join the club. Sometimes I feel like I must be the only mother in the world who has to deal with whatever-it-is-that-I’m-dealing-with. Odd club, isn’t it? A whole bunch of people who feel all alone…and yet, that’s exactly what parenting is like sometimes. Then you [...]

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The HomeSchool Neighborly

The HomeSchool Neighborly In 2008 I produced a homeschool newsletter for eight months entitled The HomeSchool Neighborly. It was in response to the recent demise of our local homeschool group and my own angst over the lack of opportunity for homeschoolers in our area to come together–for whatever purposes:  support, activities, entertainment, education, friendships, competition… I [...]

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