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January 9, 2017
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Published on January 09, 2017 11:07
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Published on January 09, 2017 00:00
January 7, 2017
Lee Ryder Knows About the Nose

Ahh the winter months, time for cold weather and stuffy noses. Maybe your nose isn't filled with yucky stuff....maybe it's filled with facts! So for your entertainment here is a nose full of facts about the human nose.
10 Little known facts about the nose.
1. The human nose is the least sensitive of all of the human senses, it's true!
2. The inability to distinctly identify different scents is called Anosmia.
3. There is a distinctive decline in the sensitivity of the human olfactory system as you age.
4. People can detect more than 1 trillion different scents.
5. You can actually smell fear and disgust in people's sweat!
6. Women have a better sense of smell than men
7. Decreased smell sensitivity can signal the onset of parkinson's or alzheimer's disease.
8. Every single person has their own distinct scent and no two people's scents are the same!
9. The oldest sense of smell in humans was called chemodetection.
10. The most pleasurable scents to human beings are cinnamon, vanilla, cookies, and crayons!

Published on January 07, 2017 00:00
January 5, 2017
Title: The Evolution of Ivy: PoisonAuthor: Lauren Campbel...


Blurb: They won't recognize the new me.But they know the old me well—the me she harmed, and the me he loved.She thinks she has him. But I'm going to take him back.He thinks she's the one. But I'm going to show him he's wrong.I thought it was over. But now I have a chance.



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Published on January 05, 2017 22:54
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Over time, several cities and several tries, Kyle and Juniper are tested by family, career and a very powerful arch-nemesis, Denise, as they try to find each other. Can love survive the test of time?Add to Goodreads








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Published on January 05, 2017 00:00
January 2, 2017
Synopsis:The events chronicled herein occur after the des...

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The events chronicled herein occur after the destruction of Reyaz the Warlock, which was recounted in Sacrifice of Love. A few months of peace were enjoyed by the various supernatural races before an increase in attacks by vampires in the human realm, which was recounted in Den of Sorrows, forces the elves, fae and werewolves to go to battle once again.
Duty, sacrifice, service, and discipline. These were the characteristics that described Cyn, the warrior fae. Though love was out of her reach, she thought this life was all she needed. She had never been more wrong. A chance meeting with the Prince of the Elves turns her carefully structured world upside down.
Thalion is loyal to his people above all else. As the prince of the Elves, it is his duty to protect them. His loyalty has never been in question. But then, he's never met anyone like Cyn before.
The destiny of both their races may hinge on whether an elf and a fae can overcome their differences and face an uncertain future together.

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Published on January 02, 2017 19:45
Why I completely identify with Jem in the Infernal Devices
James Carstairs, parabatai of William Herondale. Warrior, friend, orphan. While I am not an orphan I am a warrior, I am also a mother, wife, friend, and author. Why am I a warrior? Why do I identify with this character so much.
This takes us back to 2008. Before 2008, I was a normal person working 40 hours a week at night at a logistics company. I was a quick learner so I moved up the ranks quickly and was able to do many of the things the people who had been there for years did. I worked hard and was proud of what I did, I loved my job.
Then it all changed, one night when I went to work I got in a car accident. The accident was not my fault, but it changed my life forever. There were injuries to my back and neck, on top of recurring terrible headaches, and loss of movement in my neck and back. There was dizziness, pain, and blurring of vision. Lawyers, and courts, and police, and so many stressful things.
Because of my injuries I couldn't work more than 12 hours a week and even that was pushing it. The pain got so bad as I did my data entry and I had to leave work early so much. Then they got rid of my department and I was sent to work in collections which opened a whole new door of agony stress and pain. I endured it for a year. A year of pain,blinding headaches, IBS attacks and lost time at work. Still I pushed ahead working through the ranks learning all I could and excelling at my job despite all the setbacks. However the work force is not forgiving to those who miss time for illness.
My vision would blur out when I was reading the computer screen, my head would pound, I'd get dizzy but I'd push forward.
In 2009, my doctor told me I couldn't do it anymore. It was pushing my body to limits it just didn't have anymore and I had to stop and take care of my injuries and try to heal as best I can. I was crushed, I lost my purpose in life. I'd been working since I was 14 years old, and even before that.
I ask of you one thing. Don't pity me. I'm past that point. Just like before I've pushed forward.
Fast forward 2013. Now I have answers, 5 long years of testing poking and prodding and now I have answers names to the things that caused my pain. It has been a long road, with a slew of doctors behind me and a slew of tests and wrong diagnoses. But the list is as follows:
FibromyalgiaCavernous Angioma in my brain and brain lining tumor that cause atypical migraines. Arthritisweakening of my right sideexhaustioninsomniaPTSD
and many more things but these are the worst of the list.
In walks Jem Carstairs. He too is fighting a long illness caused by demon poison, he has medicine that causes him pain but keeps him going. He pushes forward. Just like I do.
I'd hit a point where I was so frustrated about living in pain, about not having a purpose. I was giving up and it wasn't who I was. I was having nightmares and life for all other rights and purposes sucked. I was up all night and slept all day.
In comes Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments Series, I'd fallen in love with the amazing world and characters she created. Then I find the Infernal Devices Series. Jem, Tessa, and Will. I started reading it before I had surgery, in fact I had the book with me while I waited because I was nervous and it took my mind off of it.
I'd just written my first book, because I saw so many female writers around me doing what I wanted to do. I'd gone to a concert for my friend and promptly got sick with a silent migraine (http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headac...) and ended up in the hospital that night with the fear I was having a stroke. Luckily it wasn't that.
When I got home I began reading the Infernal Devices series and about Jem, no matter what the setback he pushed forward. His body fighting him every step of the way. It's like mine, fights me every day of my life. The medicine doesn't help just dulls the symptoms, it doesn't work like magic. But he fights, for those he loves, for the greater good, with every breath he takes he's fighting.
After I read that series, I didn't feel so alone in my fight against these terrible diagnoses. I wanted to be more like Jem. A faithful friend, slow to anger, a fighter. So I started different treatments they are invasive yes, but for the momentary pain there is less pain in my future. I'm against any narcotics at all which is fine with my doctors because I know they don't like to prescribe them.
I use music and art to take my mind off things, pouring my heart and soul into them just as James does when he plays his violin. His musicality was what initially drew my attention to this character, I always put my feelings into art and music like he does. I'm now faced with another setback....January 2017. I'm going to channel my inner Jem for this one.
I'm going to keep fighting, no matter the pain. I'm going to push forward every day and take it 1 day at a time until they find a cure for me.
My challenge to you, is to channel your inner Jem. Even if your body is weak, have a strong spirit and fight the good fight and keep fighting. Give your heart to your family and friends and have a fierce loyalty towards them. Love with all of your being and never give up.
Thank you Cassie, for this amazing and beautiful character beloved by so many! <3

This takes us back to 2008. Before 2008, I was a normal person working 40 hours a week at night at a logistics company. I was a quick learner so I moved up the ranks quickly and was able to do many of the things the people who had been there for years did. I worked hard and was proud of what I did, I loved my job.
Then it all changed, one night when I went to work I got in a car accident. The accident was not my fault, but it changed my life forever. There were injuries to my back and neck, on top of recurring terrible headaches, and loss of movement in my neck and back. There was dizziness, pain, and blurring of vision. Lawyers, and courts, and police, and so many stressful things.
Because of my injuries I couldn't work more than 12 hours a week and even that was pushing it. The pain got so bad as I did my data entry and I had to leave work early so much. Then they got rid of my department and I was sent to work in collections which opened a whole new door of agony stress and pain. I endured it for a year. A year of pain,blinding headaches, IBS attacks and lost time at work. Still I pushed ahead working through the ranks learning all I could and excelling at my job despite all the setbacks. However the work force is not forgiving to those who miss time for illness.
My vision would blur out when I was reading the computer screen, my head would pound, I'd get dizzy but I'd push forward.
In 2009, my doctor told me I couldn't do it anymore. It was pushing my body to limits it just didn't have anymore and I had to stop and take care of my injuries and try to heal as best I can. I was crushed, I lost my purpose in life. I'd been working since I was 14 years old, and even before that.
I ask of you one thing. Don't pity me. I'm past that point. Just like before I've pushed forward.
Fast forward 2013. Now I have answers, 5 long years of testing poking and prodding and now I have answers names to the things that caused my pain. It has been a long road, with a slew of doctors behind me and a slew of tests and wrong diagnoses. But the list is as follows:
FibromyalgiaCavernous Angioma in my brain and brain lining tumor that cause atypical migraines. Arthritisweakening of my right sideexhaustioninsomniaPTSD
and many more things but these are the worst of the list.
In walks Jem Carstairs. He too is fighting a long illness caused by demon poison, he has medicine that causes him pain but keeps him going. He pushes forward. Just like I do.
I'd hit a point where I was so frustrated about living in pain, about not having a purpose. I was giving up and it wasn't who I was. I was having nightmares and life for all other rights and purposes sucked. I was up all night and slept all day.
In comes Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments Series, I'd fallen in love with the amazing world and characters she created. Then I find the Infernal Devices Series. Jem, Tessa, and Will. I started reading it before I had surgery, in fact I had the book with me while I waited because I was nervous and it took my mind off of it.

I'd just written my first book, because I saw so many female writers around me doing what I wanted to do. I'd gone to a concert for my friend and promptly got sick with a silent migraine (http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headac...) and ended up in the hospital that night with the fear I was having a stroke. Luckily it wasn't that.
When I got home I began reading the Infernal Devices series and about Jem, no matter what the setback he pushed forward. His body fighting him every step of the way. It's like mine, fights me every day of my life. The medicine doesn't help just dulls the symptoms, it doesn't work like magic. But he fights, for those he loves, for the greater good, with every breath he takes he's fighting.
After I read that series, I didn't feel so alone in my fight against these terrible diagnoses. I wanted to be more like Jem. A faithful friend, slow to anger, a fighter. So I started different treatments they are invasive yes, but for the momentary pain there is less pain in my future. I'm against any narcotics at all which is fine with my doctors because I know they don't like to prescribe them.
I use music and art to take my mind off things, pouring my heart and soul into them just as James does when he plays his violin. His musicality was what initially drew my attention to this character, I always put my feelings into art and music like he does. I'm now faced with another setback....January 2017. I'm going to channel my inner Jem for this one.


Thank you Cassie, for this amazing and beautiful character beloved by so many! <3
Published on January 02, 2017 16:53
January 1, 2017
New Release! Knight with a Violin: A short story in ...
New Release! Knight with a Violin: A short story in the Unsuitable Bride Series

A violinist with a mission When musician Bayard Pytchley’s childhood sweetheart is abducted, he sets aside his newly realized ambition of playing in the Florenz Theatre orchestra to rush to her rescue. A stroke of fate strands Bayard with a down-on-their-luck thespian troupe. Viviana Fairweather’s joie de vivre inspires him as only music did before. Despite his noble intentions, Bayard proves all too susceptible to the charms of the troupe’s beautiful leading actress. A free-spirited actress Viviana cannot imagine a more satisfying life than touring with her family and performing for ordinary folk in the towns and villages of rural England. But when violinist Bayard Pytchley joins their troupe temporarily, she realizes what she has been missing—a man to share her life and love. Caught between honor and love Viviana can’t help but admire the man for his loyalty. Yet, how will her shattered heart mend when he leaves the troupe to search for his first love? What’s a man of honor to do when he falls in love with the wrong woman? Buy Now on AmazonOther Books in The Unsuitable Bride Series:The Lady is Mine (Book 1)

He needed a solution When an innocent carriage drive leads to a few stolen kisses and a hasty proposal, Lord Beldon must find a way out of a most inconvenient betrothal. Miss Harriet Vernon is not the tall, elegant lady he envisioned for his wife. His solution: invite her to his country home. He believes a fortnight with his quarrelsome family will send her running the other way. She had a plan Harriet is no happier with the situation. If only she hadn’t been so dazzled by Lord Beldon’s handsomeness and dazed by his kisses, she never would have agreed to his proposal. Marriage isn’t in her plans—she wants to travel and see the world. If she brings her ravishing younger sister to his country home, the beautiful pair is bound to fall in love, leaving Harriet free to pursue her goal. Unfortunately it wasn’t working . . . for either of them Harriet and Beldon can’t seem to keep their hands off each other, and with interfering families, hot pursuit by other candidates for their hands and a pantomime to perform, will these two misguided lovers ever discover they were meant for each other? "Sometimes what the mind thinks it wants, the heart will speak another language all it’s own, called love… " --Janalee Ruschhaupt, Love Romances website Buy Link: http://a.co/isyKhpgThe Lady in Question (Book 2)

A fateful toss of the dice Charlotte Treadwell is outraged when she learns her gaming-mad papa has just forfeited her in a game of hazard. Suddenly she is the “property” of Hugh Brooks, Earl of Rayfield, a rake and a gambler who couldn’t possibly understand that her passionate heart is taken up with helping those less fortunate than she. A perilous game of chance Rayfield must stop an aristocratic spy from inflicting the horrors of revolution upon England. How can he keep his mind on his duties when the tempting woman he has just won is the fiery daughter of his prime suspect? Love is the most dangerous gamble of all . . . Buy Link: http://a.co/3poXMTZAbout the Author:
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Judith lives on a historic pioneer farm in the verdant Pacific Northwest with her husband, daughter, two cats, some horses, and a dozen or so Collies. Ms Laik writes Regency-set historicals, and has also written two (so far) stories in the “When a Hero Comes Marching Home” World War II series. As Judy Laik, she is the author of a story in a historical anthology for middle-grade children, A Horse’s Tale, and a middle-grade book, Under Whose Influence?, as well as co-author of a book of quotations, Around the Circle Gently. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Beau Monde and Greater Seattle chapters or RWA, and Pacific Northwest Writers Association. Visit her Web site at http://www.judithlaik.com.
Published on January 01, 2017 00:00
December 26, 2016
Hanukkah the festival of Lights

Hanukkah is the Hebrew festival of Lights as written on Chabad.org
In the second century BCE, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who tried to force the people of Israel to accept Greek culture and beliefs instead of mitzvah observance and belief in G‑d. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews, led by Judah the Maccabee, defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of God.When they sought to light the Temple's Menorah (the seven-branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks. Miraculously, they lit the menorah and the one-day supply of oil lasted for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah.

At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah lighting. The menorah holds nine flames, one of which is the shamash (“attendant”), which is used to kindle the other eight lights. On the first night, we light just one flame. On the second night, an additional flame is lit. By the eighth night of Chanukah, all eight lights are kindled.Special blessings are recited, often to a traditional melody, before the menorah is lit, and traditional songs are sung afterward.A menorah is lit in every household (or even by each individual within the household) and placed in a doorway or window. The menorah is also lit in synagogues and other public places. In recent years, thousands of jumbo menorahs have cropped up in front of city halls and legislative buildings, and in malls and parks all over the world.We recite the special Hallel prayer daily, and add V’Al HaNissim in our daily prayers and in the Grace After Meals, to offer praise and thanksgiving to G‑d for “delivering the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few ... the wicked into the hands of the righteous.”Chanukah begins on the eve of Kislev 25 and continues for eight days. On the civil calendar, it generally coincides with the month of December.Since the Chanukah miracle involved oil, it is customary to eat foods fried in oil. The Eastern-European classic is the potato latke (pancake) garnished with applesauce or sour cream, and the reigning Israeli favorite is the jelly-filled sufganya (doughnut).

On Chanukah, it is customary to play with a “dreidel” (a four-sided spinning top bearing the Hebrew letters, nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for nes gadol hayah sham, “a great miracle happened there”). The game is usually played for a pot of coins, nuts, or other stuff, which is won or lost based on which letter the dreidel lands when it is spun.

In today’s consumer-driven society, people tend to place great importance on giving Chanukah gifts. However, the tradition is actually to give Chanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children. In addition to rewarding positive behavior and devotion to Torah study, the cash gifts give the children the opportunity to give tzedakah (charity). This has also spawned the phenomenon of foil-covered “chocolate gelt.”
Because Chabad.org is such a wonderful site I decided to copy their words here because the explanation is fantastic. Check out all the Jewish holidays there, so many of them are so beautiful and such poignant reminders of how many blessings you truly have in your life. I am very blessed to have many Jewish friends and every one of them is special and amazing.
Published on December 26, 2016 07:34
December 25, 2016
How to say Merry Christmas in Many Langauges http://...

How to say Merry Christmas in Many Langauges
http://www.whychristmas.com/customs/l...
there is an entire list there however here are 10 ways to say Merry Christmas
Afrikaans - Geseende Kersfees
Dutch - vroljik Kerstfeest
French - Joyeux Noel
Mandarin - Shen Dan Kuai Le
Hindi - Subh Krisamas
Farsi - Christmas MobArak
Italian- Buon Natale
Hebrew - Chag Molad Samaech
Mexico - Cualli netlacatilizpan
Spanish - Feliz Navidad
Swedish God Jul
I hope that your christmas is filled with blessings, family, warmth, joy, and laughter.
Published on December 25, 2016 00:00