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Recreating a 1908 Vancouver Cookbook, One Chapter at a Time

I seem to have zero energy but I have started a tiny new project. When I first came to Vancouver

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My Journey to Write a Cozy Mystery

This is probably going to be very boring to 99.9 percent of the world. Maybe I should make that 99.99999

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Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online for all Ages

Free Jigsaw Puzzles Online Playing free jigsaw puzzles online offers a wealth of benefits, making it a valuable pastime for

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Detours & Side Trips

So I am bit more spasmodic with my daily as usual but continuing on.   Since I always have a good

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Nothing & Everything

Play this as a Puzzle Yesterday started out a bit crazy and then continued crazy until finally life returned to

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Vancouver Ghosts with Jeff Davis

Ghosts in Vancouver, Washington An October Sunday afternoon was particularly spooky as a small group gathered at Covington House for

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Give what you have

Today’s Sunshine: \”Give what you have to someone it may be better than you dare to think.\” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Peace on Earth

Today’s Sunshine: “And in despair I bowed my head; \”There is no peace on earth,\” I said; \”For hate is

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A Conspiracy

Today’s Sunshine: “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of LOVE.” Hamilton Wright Mabie I

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God enters by a private door

Today’s Sunshine: \”God enters by a private door into every individual.\” Ralph Waldo Emerson My mind is at a blank

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The heart experiences God

Today’s Sunshine: It is the heart which experiences God not the reason. Blaise Pascal I remember reading once that after

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God with us

Today’s Sunshine: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means

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Every time we give

Today’s Sunshine: “Every time we love, every time we give it\’s Christmas!” Dale Evans Somehow I couldn\’t shift out of

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One word frees us

Today’s Sunshine: “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is LOVE.” Sophocles Well,

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Christmas makes us better

Today’s Sunshine: “We are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.” Laura Ingalls

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Basic Ingredients of Christmas

Today’s Sunshine: “Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly Merry Christmas..” Peg Bracken So

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