Hello Sweat Love Muffins! Here it is! My recipe for Cherry Dessert Danish, as promised! This is one of Pauli’s favorite desserts, and every person I’ve ever made it for giddy claps for it again and again, so I hope you love it!!! I’ll walk you through this easy peasy, uber yummy for your taste … Read more
Hello Beautiful Lights of Love! I’m a week late and a cherry dessert Danish recipe shy, but my dad died last week, and between coping with his loss, family drama and trauma, and my chronic fatigue, I find I’m struggling. So for now, let’s talk about the message that beats loudest in my heart, body, … Read more
Dear Bright Stars and Happy Holiday Hearts! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Pauli and I celebrate Christmas, and if you celebrate Christmas, we wish you a very merry holiday! For those of you celebrating Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Las Posadas, Diwali, Chinese New Year, HumanLight, and Newtonmas, we also wish you a very happy holiday! … Read more
Hello Precious Bright Stars!!! It’s that time of year again! It’s time to help kids smile big and bright and feel love and happiness in their hearts!!! Christmas can be a difficult time for children in need. There are so many families who for so many reasons cannot afford to gifty-gift their kids at Christmastime. … Read more
Hello Happy Holiday Hearts! So. Story time. LOL. Pauli comes home from work about a month ago and says, “They’re having a holiday door decorating contest at work …” No need to finish that statement. “Challenge ACCEPTED!!!” Challenge Accepted! In under 90 seconds I’d grabbed the nearest writing implement (a blue highlighter) and a piece … Read more
Hello Beautiful Blossoms! I have a Thanksgiving story of Gratitude-Giving to share with you. It’s all about how a treasured friendship lost gave me something life changing to be grateful for, and how it’s made my life a happier and better place to be! Treasured friendship lost Has it ever happened to you? You’ve had … Read more
Hello Sweet Beautiful Rays of Sunshine! Today, you get to ask yourself a powerful question: Do I want to be happy? … Don’t let this scare you off. I know I was super direct. But it’s a real and worthy question. That can sometimes be a bit scary. Please don’t be scared. I’m right here … Read more
Hello Gorgeous Blossoms!!! Life happens. And sometimes it happens to not be nice about it. We can feel stress, frustration, anger, … a whole range of negative emotions … none of which are actually helpful. Most are usually hurtful, in fact. It can be so easy to give into the negative emotions. So incredibly satisfying. … Read more
Hello hungry, happy hearts! Flu/cold season is here. A day doesn’t go by that I’m not reading about one of my peeps falling down to a mean bug of some sort. Ugh! I hate being sick!!! So let’s talk about one of the most healing foods you can ever eat: Chicken Bone Broth! Why is … Read more
Sweetest Love Muffins, I LOVE gluten. I love it in my cakes, cookies, muffins, breads, biscuits, grilled cheese sandwiches, pizza, pasta, brownies, croissants, coffee cake, donuts, gravies, cereals, … Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm … Gluten!!! I miss it so much. This will be my second holiday season sans the gluten. No Thanksgiving stuffing, gravies, desserts … oh my. … Read more