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- Book Excerpt: The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert - by Submitted on May 14, 2004 from Yolanda CardenPrologue In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. God, Isaiah 30:15 NRSV Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Jesus to His Disciples, Mark 6:31 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach ...
Views: 1028(1 vote) - Great Escape: Creating Comfort with Parent Getaways - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2004 from Yolanda CardenWhen I told my husband in a burst of excitement that I had found a whole series of books on romantic weekends in Southern California, Northern California, New England and points in between he said, "Does it come with a baby sitter?" I have listened as many couples argued about what is normal ...
Views: 1019 - Book Excerpt: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSlaying Dragons When I was a boy reading the stories of "The Knights of the Round Table" and other adventure tales of knights, ladies, and evildoers, my friends and I were inspired and spent many afternoons playing heroes and villains. In the woods of our backyards we went on many daring ...
Views: 1002(1 vote) - Book Excerpt: The Answer to Cancer - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2004 from Yolanda CardenThe Odds of Recurrence Having cancer once increases your chances of getting it again. Cancer cells from the original tumor may spread to create a secondary cancer at another site. Or an entirely new cancer may develop in association with the same risk factors that contributed to the initial ...
Views: 1001 - Book Excerpt: Evenings at Five - by Submitted on May 04, 2004 from Yolanda CardenChapter One Five o'clock sharp. "Ponctualité est la politesse des rois": Rudy quoting his late father, a factory owner (textiles) in Vienna before the Nazis came. The Pope's phone call, followed by the grinding of the ice, a growling, workmanlike sound, a lot like Rudy's own sound, compliments ...
Views: 992(1 vote) - Book Excerpt: The City Parent Handbook - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2004 from Yolanda CardenThe City Parent Rules Navigating Traffic with Young Children Rule #1: Stand well back from the street when waiting to cross. It's not safe to stand right on the curb. If you talk to your local police, they'll back us up on the frequency with which cars or buses find themselves forced up onto a ...
Views: 974 - Book Excerpt: The Pain-Free Back: 6 Simple Steps to End Pain and Reclaim Your Active Life - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSuper Nutrients That Keep Bones Strong Not only is weight loss vital for resolving back pain, but eating specific foods and nutrients can keep your bones strong and prevent osteoporosis. Review the following vitamins and minerals and make sure you get the recommended dietary allowance (RDA). ...
Views: 963 - Excerpt: Lean, Long & Strong: The 6-Week Strength-Training, Fat-Burning Program for Women - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2005 from Yolanda CardenUsing a Heart Rate Monitor If you want to get more exact with your precision cardio, you can use a heart rate monitor in addition to evaluating your rate of perceived exertion. The heart rate monitor will tell you exactly what your heart rate is as you're exercising, which means you can then ...
Views: 960(1 vote) - Book Excerpt: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSlaying Dragons When I was a boy reading the stories of "The Knights of the Round Table" and other adventure tales of knights, ladies, and evildoers, my friends and I were inspired and spent many afternoons playing heroes and villains. In the woods of our backyards we went on many daring ...
Views: 954(3 votes) - Book Excerpt: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSlaying Dragons When I was a boy reading the stories of "The Knights of the Round Table" and other adventure tales of knights, ladies, and evildoers, my friends and I were inspired and spent many afternoons playing heroes and villains. In the woods of our backyards we went on many daring ...
Views: 954(3 votes) - Book Excerpt: The Pain-Free Back: 6 Simple Steps to End Pain and Reclaim Your Active Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda Carden5 Ways Exercise Stops Back Pain I realize that it's difficult to comprehend how increasing activity will give you great benefits in pain relief, especially if your back has been hurting for a while and keeps you from performing normal daily activities. Still, if done on a regular basis, ...
Views: 953 - Book Excerpt: The Pain-Free Back: 6 Simple Steps to End Pain and Reclaim Your Active Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda Carden5 Ways Exercise Stops Back Pain I realize that it's difficult to comprehend how increasing activity will give you great benefits in pain relief, especially if your back has been hurting for a while and keeps you from performing normal daily activities. Still, if done on a regular basis, ...
Views: 948(1 vote) - If the Shoe Fits - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2005 from Yolanda Carden“If I don’t sell this novel, I’ll open a shoe store.” That’s what I told my husband, and I meant it. Shoes were easy and fun -- I quested for them on an intuitive level only a shoe lover would understand -- whereas my career as a novelist, another passion, had been a struggle. My first two ...
Views: 943 - Cross-Cultural Adoption: The Do’s and Don’ts for Grown-Ups - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2004 from Yolanda CardenDo’s Do treat her like any other kid. It may be difficult and take a while for adopted children to feel like they belong within their extended families. Treating these children like they’re “nothing special” can go a long way toward making them feel at home and comfortable within the ...
Views: 942(1 vote) - Five Tips to Avoiding Total Disaster as a Novelist from a Poor, Wretched Fool Who Had to Learn the Hard Way - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2005 from Yolanda CardenThe problem with should advice is that it’s either something you already know, i.e. your diet should include more fruit and vegetables than cheeseburgers and martinis -- or it’s something really difficult (like consuming more fruit and vegetables than cheeseburgers and martinis). So, based on my ...
Views: 933(1 vote) - Excerpt: Ready to Learn - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2005 from Yolanda CardenFinding Happiness in Your Child What do you think about when someone says "happiness?" Usually, what comes to mind are things, or outcomes. Happiness can be a four-car garage in the suburbs, a high-paying job, an expensive new car, or a child who becomes a successful professional. We have a ...
Views: 927 - Excerpt: Body-for-LIFE for Women - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2005 from Yolanda CardenYour Fitness Needs, Milestone By Milestone I've worked with thousands of women. Twenty-somethings to 50-plus career women. Anorexics and starvers to bingers and bulimics. Top athletes to women who were so obese that they could barely walk a block. For all of them, a customized fitness ...
Views: 926 - Writing the Follow-up Novel -- You Aren’t Really a Sophomore - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2005 from Yolanda CardenYou’ve heard this story before. The writing bug comes early. You’re a kid with ideas, with a desire to get them on paper, and one day you realize that you’re not ever going to stop. You also realize that some people actually make a living writing books, and since you’re going to be doing it ...
Views: 915 - Book Excerpt: The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert - by Submitted on May 14, 2004 from Yolanda CardenPrologue In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. God, Isaiah 30:15 NRSV Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Jesus to His Disciples, Mark 6:31 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach ...
Views: 907(2 votes) - Book Excerpt: The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert - by Submitted on May 14, 2004 from Yolanda CardenPrologue In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. God, Isaiah 30:15 NRSV Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Jesus to His Disciples, Mark 6:31 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach ...
Views: 907(2 votes) - The Search for the Story: One Writer's Approach to Fiction - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2005 from Yolanda CardenThe process of writing a book starts, for me, with a place in time that I find intriguing. I begin to do a little research -- if possible, with novels written at the time -- and then, if all goes well, I experience a kind of flash of complete understanding a few weeks later. Every character, ...
Views: 905 - Book Excerpt: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSlaying Dragons When I was a boy reading the stories of "The Knights of the Round Table" and other adventure tales of knights, ladies, and evildoers, my friends and I were inspired and spent many afternoons playing heroes and villains. In the woods of our backyards we went on many daring ...
Views: 902(1 vote) - Excerpt: 100 Promises to My Baby - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2005 from Yolanda CardenINTRODUCTION When I found out that I was pregnant several years ago, it was one of the happiest and most exciting moments of my life. I was awed by the fact that I had a living being growing inside of me. I spent hours visualizing what my baby would look like, talking and singing to her, ...
Views: 877 - The Truth Is . . . I Hear Voices - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2005 from Yolanda CardenEver since my first book, She’s Got Issues, got published, the first question everyone asked me was, “How do you think up your characters?” At first I lied. I said, “Um . . . I don’t know, I guess they’re a composite of people I’ve met over the years.” I thought that sounded good. I’ve heard ...
Views: 875 - Book Excerpt: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSlaying Dragons When I was a boy reading the stories of "The Knights of the Round Table" and other adventure tales of knights, ladies, and evildoers, my friends and I were inspired and spent many afternoons playing heroes and villains. In the woods of our backyards we went on many daring ...
Views: 872(2 votes) - Excerpt: The Great American Detox Diet - by Submitted on May 17, 2005 from Yolanda CardenWhat's the Difference Between a Refined and an Unrefined Carbohydrate? Do you remember making papier-mâché projects in arts and crafts class? The usual tools were strips of newspaper and a bowl of paste. That paste was made of a simple, cheap combination of ingredients: just standard white ...
Views: 866(1 vote) - Excerpt: Life Lessons for My Sisters - by Submitted on May 06, 2005 from Yolanda CardenWHO OR WHAT IS GOD? God is a spiritual being that exists within you, within others, and within the world. God is the force that created you and everything in this world. God created the world as a place for man and nature to coincide. God is not a wrathful, vengeful being. He is not a being ...
Views: 852 - How Lazy Parents Make Happier Kids and Stronger Marriages - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2004 from Yolanda CardenMy mother always said that the best parents are lazy parents. Her theory, as I understood it, was that lazy parents don't jump up every time their kids need something so that children learn to entertain themselves, enjoy themselves, and become more independent. In couples, lazy parents, ...
Views: 851 - Excerpt: Unstoppable Women: Achieve Any Breakthrough Goal in 30 Days - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2005 from Yolanda CardenUnstoppable Action Acknowledge Fear, Prepare, and Then Act Loreena McKennitt knew that to succeed on her own terms, she needed more than musical talent and passion. She needed to educate herself about the music business. So she developed a step-by-step plan to become a savvy music ...
Views: 821 - Book Excerpt: The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert - by Submitted on May 14, 2004 from Yolanda CardenPrologue In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. God, Isaiah 30:15 NRSV Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Jesus to His Disciples, Mark 6:31 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach ...
Views: 809(1 vote) - Excerpt: Let Your Goddess Grow! - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2005 from Yolanda CardenWhat Is Self-Worth? Self-worth has its entire foundation in self-love, which is really how you feel about being an individual spark of the Divine. If you cannot generate a love of your God-self, you’ll never be able to feel worthy, and no amount of blaming past circumstances, people, or policy ...
Views: 792 - Book Excerpt: The Pain-Free Back: 6 Simple Steps to End Pain and Reclaim Your Active Life - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda Carden5 Ways Exercise Stops Back Pain I realize that it's difficult to comprehend how increasing activity will give you great benefits in pain relief, especially if your back has been hurting for a while and keeps you from performing normal daily activities. Still, if done on a regular basis, ...
Views: 737 - Book Excerpt: The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert - by Submitted on May 14, 2004 from Yolanda CardenPrologue In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. God, Isaiah 30:15 NRSV Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Jesus to His Disciples, Mark 6:31 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach ...
Views: 732(1 vote) - Book Excerpt: The Richest of Fare: Seeking Spiritual Security in the Sonoran Desert - by Submitted on May 14, 2004 from Yolanda CardenPrologue In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. God, Isaiah 30:15 NRSV Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. Jesus to His Disciples, Mark 6:31 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach ...
Views: 732(1 vote) - Book Excerpt: Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance - by Submitted on May 07, 2004 from Yolanda CardenSlaying Dragons When I was a boy reading the stories of "The Knights of the Round Table" and other adventure tales of knights, ladies, and evildoers, my friends and I were inspired and spent many afternoons playing heroes and villains. In the woods of our backyards we went on many daring ...
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