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Continue reading →: My Teenage Son’s Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Carrots Recipe
All the stuff to make crispy golden roasted Brussels sprouts & carrots Brussels sprouts are not the first food you think of when feeding teenage boys. The following is a recipe we developed in Casa de Navarro over a few attempts to get more vegetables off the plate and into…
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Continue reading →: The Cover Art for Lone Star Holiday is Here!
I’m so excited to share with you the beautiful cover of my first book, Lone Star Holiday. Cowboy/Pastor John Levi and his daughter Celeste are real! Haha. You can even pre-order on Amazon and get to know them better on September 17. The official release date is October 1. I…
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Continue reading →: The Necessities…
To truly be happy I don’t need much. (or shouldn’t anyway, but that is a whole other post). After faith and family I found everything to bring joy on a sign at the King Williams Art & Craft Fair during Fiesta in San Antonio. The true necessities of a full…
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Continue reading →: Oblivion: Do you follow the rules or question them?
Are you a person that is in awe of the miracle of life or do you glare at the world with a suspicious squint? Surprise! Date night with my Mr. D & H to Boerne’s new Starplex! http://www.starplexcinemas.com/ Little Boerne, Texas is moving up in the world. Of course after…
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Continue reading →: Dove: Real Beauty or Scripted?
This video released by Dove has gotten a great deal of traffic. The first time I saw it I wanted to cry. Why do women have a hard time seeing past their internal insecurities? Yes, you are beautiful just as you are, flaws and all. I watched it again…One woman…
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Continue reading →: How do you dance when you want to cry?
How do you find the will to dance when the rain has turned into a hail storm pounding on your spirit? Today in the very act of celebrating human perseverance and endurance a random act of vicious hatred stopped us in our tracks and knocked us off our feet. We…
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Continue reading →: Inheriting Memories
There are so many things we inherit from our parents, grandparents and ancestors we’ve never even met. Names and stories we don’t know flow through us. They are the scattered pieces that make us whole. Our passions, temperaments and talents that make up our DNA. We also inherit kingdoms, priorities, minerals rights,…
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Continue reading →: Are you living your life or a default script?
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=203280383144662 Watching this video reminded me of the words my father told me my senior year when I was trying to plan my future. My father was a professional airline pilot, he flew commercial planes, he flew small planes, at one time he and his best friend Ken Taylor built…
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