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E-ffortless Celebration of the Small Things

I like to be efficient sometimes. And today I'm combining the A to Z Challenge with VikLit's Celebrate the Small Things.














Today, so many people suffer from anxiety, depression, hypertension and are just unhappy. I've been there, done that (except for hypertension - never had it). Now, as I said at the end of last year (in THIS post, if you're interested), this is my time to trust God in all things. When I remember to do that, life becomes almost EFFORTLESS. 



Of course I have to do my part. I do my best to have integrity, be loving to others and honor God in how I live my life. But when I screw up, or if something happens that I have no control over, or when something bad, hurtful or wrong happens, I trust God in all of that and stress diminishes so much I can smile through it all, even through pain. 

Yeah, I know, I'm a wimp with pain. And believe me, I will complain and pull out the Advil, in the least. I'll do what I can to alleviate or mitigate and leave the rest to God. In that way, there is so much less stress and frustration, and LaRonda (hehe, I do go by my middle name) is a happy camper in this life.
So, what I'm celebrating: That God is here and helps me through all things in order that I may live EFFORTLESSLY!
Other things I'm celebrating:
1. That I have today off!! Now hopefully I have time to take the online traffic school class before my time's up.
2. The people who have entered my Most Amazing Giveaway where everyone wins something. Today is the last day, so hurry up, click HERE and express your desire to enter in the comments.
3. A wonderful Easter dinner I hosted, and the good time I had with my 17 year old niece who stayed the night on Saturday to go to church with me on Sunday and spend Easter with the family. And some forgiving that came along with it!
Happy Friday everybody!

Don't...

Now that I’ve given you guys my best self-tested Atkins recipes, I DON’T know what to do. I have more meal ideas in the storage banks of my head, but I haven’t cooked them enough to just blurt out in this challenge without giving them a test or two. I’d also need to get the ingredients and eat the finished product, but I’m not doing the Atkins diet now. (I’m trying something else, which is supposed to be detoxification oriented, but which calls for a lot of non-eating times and hunger moments, which I’m not pleased about.)
So, I’m taking a little break from posting about the Atkins to consider what the heck I’m doing, and will get back to you by Friday with my decision.
In the mean time, here’s a little dillydally I’ve come up with – some sage advice no one should live without:

Cut-Down-on-the-Carbs Ice Cream & The Insecure Writer's Support Group

Okay, I'll do it. Wasn't sure if I was going to post this low-carb recipe wonder, but here's the story....

One of the the low-carb dieter's bane is ice cream. Not having any can be the thing that sends the sweet tooth crying out in pain. Well, here's a recipe that can be that special treat for Atkins dieters and which quiets that nagging sweet tooth. It's a low carb ice cream! (I'm using 'C' for Cream and Cut-down-on-the-Carbs.)

Here's what you need:
Heavy whipping cream, stevia (a natural zero carb sweetener), sugar-free jam (not totally necessary, but it adds that extra flavor), chopped nuts (also not necessary, but it adds that extra texture), and a mixer.

1. Pour about 1 cup of heavy whipping cream into a mixing bowl
2. Add stevia to taste (start off using very, very little, because stevia is potent)
3. Whip cream with a mixer or whisk until cream is fluffy like whipped cream is supposed to be
4. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar-free jam and fold into cream
5. Dish cream into a serving bowl and place in freeze for approximately 2 hours, until cream is frozen. It's best if there's a nice little soft spot in the center, which happens after about 2 hours.

Then take out of the freezer and enjoy! Again, you can add a teaspoon of chopped nuts over the top for texture and who doesn't like chopped nuts!

# of carbs:
Without jam or nuts: 0
With jam and no nuts: 5 grams
With jam and nuts: about 7 grams




Alex J. Cavanaugh's Insecure Writer's Support Group


This past month hasn't been very productive writing wise. My critique partner I met with once has been busy and I'm not sure if it'll work out or not. The other writing group meets twice a month, and I was able to go only once last month. Another one meets only once a month. I'm planning on meeting someone else on the 13th, but she's not really writing anything right now, so it would just be about me. Doesn't quite seem the same thing, but we'll see.

Other things are promising however, including a book signing I have coming up on April 20th, and The Book Shop in Hayward purchased a copy of my book to place on the shelf. But, I need to get writing!

Okay, I'll stop whining. I'm blessed. :) But I do need to write.


*** Remember you can still enter A Most Amazing Giveaway where everyone wins something until April 5th by clicking here.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts Delight

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I think they’re just misunderstanding the magnificence of this wonderfully healthy veg. That, or someone did those little pod look-alikes injustice in how they cooked them up. </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here’s a great low-carb veggie delight that is easy and will please anyone. I dare even one person to say they don’t like this. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">(In case you hadn’t guessed, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #741b47;">B</span></b> in this<a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/"... style="color: blue;"> A to Z Challenge</span></a> is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #741b47;">B</span></b>russels sprouts.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">What you need:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fresh Brussel sprouts, fresh mushrooms, olive oil, garlic (I use the diced jarred garlic), salt, cayenne pepper (if you like). Of course you can use whatever mushrooms you like, but I’m partial to the brown crimini Italian mushrooms, and not just ‘cus I speak Italian.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cut </span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">off </span>the ends of the Brussels sprouts and slice the sprouts in half.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cut the mushrooms in halves or quarters, depending on how large the mushrooms are originally. Let them be similar in size to the halved sprouts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Place the veggies in a large mixing bowl, add olive oil just to coat the veggies and toss (or mix with your hands, for those non-cooks)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Add spices and toss</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">Place veggie mix in baking pan evenly laid out in one layer and bake (or roast) at 350-400F for approximately 20-30 minutes, until the loose leaves of the sprouts are a deep brown color. You may need to stir them up a bit after about 10-15 minutes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0C7MOWcFQJk..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0C7MOWcFQJk..." width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;">And that’s it. Dig in and enjoy! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 14.0pt;"># of carbs per <span style="font-size: x-small;">1/2</span> cup serving: approx. 6 grams</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

April's A to Z Challenge is Here!

I'm one of those who didn't have a theme for this most wonderful challenge started by a great list of hosts. Check them out by clicking here. I have to give thanks to all of the minions as well! You can check out who the minions are by clicking here. I've had some ideas of what I could talk about for one month, but my focus changes so often, it's hard for me to commit to one or two ideas for a theme.

One of my ideas was recipes for people on the Atkins, or low-carb, diet. Thus, for A in this A-Z challenge, Atkins it is. In a nutshell, the Atkins diet is eating foods low in carbohydrates in order that your metabolism changes from burning glucose, or sugars, to burning stored fat. This process is called ketosis. Instead of counting calories, you count carbs. The benefits of this is losing weight, reducing or ending many medical issues caused by high carb diets, and it's a diet in which you don't go hungry. Anything with sugars, natural or otherwise, and starch, which converts into sugar in the body, are drastically reduced. Fortunately, there are options which help to put a curb to a lingering sweet tooth. So maybe I'll stick with the Atkins diet for a while in this challenge.

I learned to do this diet from reading the Atkins Diet book, which worked well when I did it for more than four months over 12 years ago. Here's how it works: In the first two weeks, you want to eat around 10 carbs a day or less to get the ketosis kicking in. Then you can up it to about 25 carbs. People adjust the levels depending on what they were taught.

Here's a recipe that I like to use even if I'm not doing the Atkins diet, because it seems better than using white flour and oil.

Non-fried, Crispy Pork Rind Chicken:
This is a simple recipe that requires chicken parts, chopped pork rinds and spices. You can use flavored or plain pork rinds.

1. Chop pork rinds using some form of chopper. I have a Ninja chopper that works great and quickly. You can add spices such as salt (not too much because pork rinds are already somewhat salty), parsley, cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic, and whatever else you'd like before or after chopping.

2. Put the chopped and spiced pork rinds in a plate or shallow bowl.

3. Wet your chicken parts, and coat them with the pork rinds.

4. Bake them on an oven sheet at 325F for approximately 40 minutes. The skin will be crispy and delicious.

# of carbs: 0



One great benefit is that it satisfies your craving for fried food. This recipe could even be used to cook fish. But since fish cooks so much quicker than chicken, the pork rinds didn't have enough time to crisp in the oven and I had to pan fry the fish to get the crispiness. I used Maki loins, and I tell you, it tasted just like the best fish sticks.

Meet Stan the Pilgarlic man ~ Save-A-Word Saturday

The word lovers' and prompt writers' blog hop. Here's how it goes:

1. Create a lovely blog post that links back to The Feather and The Rose blog - our host.
2. Pick an old word you want to save from extinction to feature in your blog post. It really must be an old word, not just a big one. We are trying to save lovely archaisms, not ugly giants (for example, "Dihydrogen Monoxide" is not an acceptable choice). Luciferous Logolepsy is a great database of lovely words if you're having trouble coming up with something on your own.
3. Provide a definition of your word. Use your word in a sentence (or even a short paragraph) vaguely related to the theme we have chosen this week. You may also add visual or musical interpretations of your word or your sentence. In fact, add anything that moves your creative spirit.
4. Add your post to the linky list below (sometimes it's added late). Then hop to as many other blogs as you can in search of as many wonderful words as possible!
5. Use as many of the words as you can on the people in your life. Do leave us a note or add something to your own post to let us all know what wonderful old word you whipped out to befuddle your friends and relations.
Today's theme is: Laughter
My word today is: Pilgarlic: From 1520-30Noun - a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity; a baldheaded man 
And here's my writing for this word:

"Look at him."
"Yeah, I know."
"That's a shame."
"Yeah. Wanna do something about it?"
"What more could be done to that homeless, drunk pilgarlic?"

Stan stood up and stumbled near the two. "I may be homeless, drunk, even pilgarlic. At least I know enough to show pity on those who have less than me, even on two worthless punks like you. Here, take a swig."

Diane and Marvin burst out laughing before walking away, and finished off with, "Good bye, you old geezer!"





Remember, the Most Amazing Giveaway is still on until April 5! Just click here.

Celebrating the Biggest Thing: Easter

I'm celebrating... well, we all are... celebrating those small and big things for VikLit's Writing Blog weekly bloghop.

I'm celebrating the end of the week and Good Friday service tonight at Faith Fellowship Church in San Leandro. Then there's Easter this Sunday, which for some reason I'd gotten the message to host Easter dinner this year. You know who that message was from, don't you? Sure you do. It was God. I knew you knew. So, I've got to trust that it will be a great Easter dinner.

Happy Easter everybody!

Book Review: Learning to Fly has some great character...

This is a review of Learning to Fly by Rachel Elizabeth Cole for the Indie-Fever Reading Challenge brought by b00k r3vi3ws.


I won this book in a LibraryThing Member Giveaway.
Learning to Fly is a book of short stories with characters that are well developed, relatable and oh so real. They are stories that tell of a difficult moment in people’s lives. In Fallen Leaves, there is the widowed mother who must consider taking in a difficult, elderly in-law. The question is why? Listen to the Rain, is about a young pregnant couple who must learn whether it’s worth surviving past the chapter in their lives when neither of them say what they mean to and end their days in arguments. The character I related to most was the mother in Caring for Lily who is trying to find a daycare for her baby so she can return to work – truly that’s what she wants, right? Then there’s the blogger in For Good or For Bad, who has a good husband and two children, but can’t stop thinking about the one who got away. Finally, there’s Is This Seat Taken? where a young pregnant woman at a bus station meets a young college guy. Are they both lost or looking to find their own way?
As I stated above, the characters are real and the book is well written. What was most amiss for me was that they weren’t short stories, but excerpts of longer pieces. None of them was a complete story. It seemed to be what the author intended, but I was always of the belief that a short story has a beginning, middle and end. These all lacked an ending, some more than others. The last story was the most mystifying, though it wasn’t a mystery. It was unknown what the conflict was and why the pregnant woman was at the bus station. At least with the other stories, you could think of how the stories could turn out and dream up possible endings. For the last one, however, since it’s unsure what the conflict was, you have no idea what might happen.
Furthermore, as this is a fairly short book, I initially thought it was one short story and it took me a while to realize that the next chapter was indeed a whole new story since they are in the first person and you don’t know who the narrator is until the name is finally mentioned. This confusion could have been because I had a pdf version of the book without the cover. Looking at the cover later, it does state that these are a collection of short stories. A Table of Contents or a logline on the cover page could have helped, however.
Still, Rachel Elizabeth Cole is a very good writer who is great at character development, something I admire in a writer. I would be interested in reading a complete novel by her to see how she does finalize stories.
She has published eight books and her work has appeared in various publications.
Click on the links below to find Learning to Fly and to learn more about Rachel Elizabeth Cole.
AmazonWebsiteFacebookTwitterBook Info: Pages 51  Cost $2.99 Kindle edition

Celebrating 100 Followers! A Grateful, Small Achievement + Save-A-Word Saturday

To celebrate reaching my 100th follower, I wanted to do something big, bad and funny. We all need a laugh, and I'm seeing the picture above as something funny, not sad. (You know, as in it was a gag picture.)

In celebrating this most small achievement for Celebrate the Small Things Friday (again Thanks VikLit for hosting this weekly blog hop), I wanna first thank all who have taken the time to follow this blog, read my posts, comment, and be a positive presence in this blogosphere.


Now for gift time! I wanted to give something to everyone who wants something. So here you have it:

1. A free download of an eBook version of Anticipation of the Penitent from Smashwords.com (for any and every one of my followers!)
2. $10 gift card from Amazon.com (for two winning followers)
3. A surprise gag gift (for two other winning followers)

To enter this giveaway, be a follower of this blog and express your interest by leaving a comment or sending me an email to nlarondajohnson-author@yahoo.com. The winners for gift numbers 2 & 3 will be randomly selected from those who express their interest. This giveaway will end on Friday, April 5, 2013.

P.S. - If you comment on this blog but aren't a follower, maybe because you don't have gmail, you can still enter this giveaway. Just send me a note that you do comment on this blog and that you wish to enter.

Happy Celebrating the Small Things!



This is a word lovers and prompt writers bloghop. Here's how it goes:

1. Create a lovely blog post that links back to The Feather and The Rose blog - our host.
2. Pick an old word you want to save from extinction to feature in your blog post. It really must be an old word, not just a big one. We are trying to save lovely archaisms, not ugly giants (for example, "Dihydrogen Monoxide" is not an acceptable choice). Luciferous Logolepsy is a great database of lovely words if you're having trouble coming up with something on your own.
3. Provide a definition of your word. Use your word in a sentence (or even a short paragraph) vaguely related to the theme we have chosen this week. You may also add visual or musical interpretations of your word or your sentence. In fact, add anything that moves your creative spirit.
4. Add your post to the linky list below (sometimes I add it later in the day). Then hop to as many other blogs as you can in search of as many wonderful words as possible!
5. Use as many of the words as you can on the people in your life. Do leave us a note or add something to your own post to let us all know what wonderful old word you whipped out to befuddle your friends and relations.
Today's theme is: castles
My word today is: canticle - From 1175-1225 Middle EnglishNoun – one of the nonmetrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible, used in church services; a song, poem, or hymn, especially of praise
And here's my writing for this word: “I am sure it was Eugene’s evocative canticle that reached heaven and brought God to our aid. That is the only reason this house, our castle, withstood the devastating attacks from those lawless thugs.”
“Don’t give up on them, Harriet. As long as they have breath, there’s a chance that even one of them could see the truth and be the catalyst for our next victory. Remember, God doesn’t give up on anyone. Neither should we.”

Celebrating 100 Followers! A Grateful, Small Achievement + Save A Word Saturday

To celebrate reaching my 100th follower, I wanted to do something big, bad and funny. We all need a laugh, and I'm seeing the picture above as something funny, not sad. (You know, as in it was a gag picture.)

In celebrating this most small achievement for Celebrate the Small Things Friday (again Thanks VikLit for hosting this weekly blog hop), I wanna first thank all who have taken the time to follow this blog, read my posts, comment, and be a positive presence in this blogosphere.


Now for gift time! I wanted to give something to everyone who wants something. So here you have it:

1. A free download of an eBook version of Anticipation of the Penitent from Smashwords.com (for any and every one of my followers!)
2. $10 gift card from Amazon.com (for two winning followers)
3. A surprise gag gift (for two other winning followers)

To enter this giveaway, be a follower of this blog and express your interest by leaving a comment or sending me an email to nlarondajohnson-author@yahoo.com. The winners for gift numbers 2 & 3 will be randomly selected from those who express their interest. This giveaway will end on Friday, April 5, 2013.

P.S. - If you comment on this blog but aren't a follower, maybe because you don't have gmail, you can still enter this giveaway. Just send me a note that you do comment on this blog and that you wish to enter.

Happy Celebrating the Small Things!



This is a word lovers and prompt writers bloghop. Here's how it goes:

1. Create a lovely blog post that links back to The Feather and The Rose blog - our host.
2. Pick an old word you want to save from extinction to feature in your blog post. It really must be an old word, not just a big one. We are trying to save lovely archaisms, not ugly giants (for example, "Dihydrogen Monoxide" is not an acceptable choice). Luciferous Logolepsy is a great database of lovely words if you're having trouble coming up with something on your own.
3. Provide a definition of your word. Use your word in a sentence (or even a short paragraph) vaguely related to the theme we have chosen this week. You may also add visual or musical interpretations of your word or your sentence. In fact, add anything that moves your creative spirit.
4. Add your post to the linky list below (sometimes I add it later in the day). Then hop to as many other blogs as you can in search of as many wonderful words as possible!
5. Use as many of the words as you can on the people in your life. Do leave us a note or add something to your own post to let us all know what wonderful old word you whipped out to befuddle your friends and relations.
Today's theme is: castles
My word today is: canticle - From 1175-1225 Middle EnglishNoun – one of the nonmetrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible, used in church services; a song, poem, or hymn, especially of praise
And here's my writing for this word: “I am sure it was Eugene’s evocative canticle that reached heaven and brought God to our aid. That is the only reason this house, our castle, withstood the devastating attacks from those lawless thugs.”
“Don’t give up on them, Harriet. As long as they have breath, there’s a chance that even one of them could see the truth and be the catalyst for our next victory. Remember, God doesn’t give up on anyone. Neither should we.”