Bring On Lemons

Please take a moment to check out The Digital Rabbit Hole on Amazon and let me know what you think. Here's a quick summary: The Digital Rabbit Hole reveals that we are becoming captive in the digital universe. The portals are smartphones and the world is the Internet. We immerse ourselves social media; we learn through packaged feel-good information; and we will leave the hard work to robots and AI. The book details digital media and discusses smartphone addiction problems. It proposes solutions to stimulate creativity and education and to recapture our humanity. I am working on putting together a WOW! Women on Writing book blog tour for this book. The tour will begin July 10th and run through the first week of August. If you would be interested in reading and reviewing The Digital Rabbit Hole by Larry Kilham, please email: crystal@wow-womenonwriting.com as soon as possible! Include in the email: * Your email address if you'd like a digital copy or your physical add...

Happy Mother's Day!! I haven't always been the best daughter - the truth is I've probably been one of the biggest pains in my mom's ass for most of my life. You know what is pretty amazing though? She's always bent over backwards for me. Sometimes I didn't appreciate the help or the advice - okay...most of the time I didn't appreciate it, but she was always there and unwavering in her commitment to me. I'm not going to get into the details of the hell I put my mom through, but I'll openly admit she has earned every one of those grey hairs and I have caused each and every one. What I do want to tell you about is what an awesome grandmother and mother my mom is. She reschedules her own social engagements and appointments to make sure she is available to babysit. She has learned more about car seat safety than she cares to, and at 70+ years old she spends every Sunday morning making breakfast for a family of 6 then entertaining the toddlers/infants ...

So - I took a look at a recipe a friend sent me for rhubarb cookies and I tweaked it a bit to ensure I would end up with lots of fluffy melt in your mouth delicious cookies. So here goes: Ruby Doodle Cookies! 3 cups cake flour 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter, melted 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 1 cup sour cream 2 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups rhubarb, diced Juice from 1/2 lemon (or approximately 2 teaspoons of lemon juice) Set aside another 1/2 cup of sugar and if desired, mix with chi latte mix (you'll use this to roll the cookies in) Pre-heat oven to 350 F and place rack in the middle position. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Step One: Measure and combine in your mixer the sour cream, butter, egg, and vanilla, mix well. Step Two: add salt, sugar, lemon, baking powder, and baking soda. Continue mixing well. Step Three: add rhubarb and again mix well. Step Four: add flour and mix. Batter should be easy to handle (you...

Today's guest post is written by  friend of the woman who submitted the letter to her soon to be ex- husband, and his mistress , in light of his cheating (originally discussed in "Crawling Out of the Dark". Dear Friend, You are so strong. I know you don't feel very strong right now, but you are. You could have handled this situation in so many different ways. Instead, you confronted the situation head on with your head held high. You didn't crawl into a bottle. You didn't run to the arms of another. You continue to be a wonderful mother and friend, you continue to work hard helping others and enjoying life to the fullest.  I wish I could do something to ease your pain. I wish I could do something to help you see none of this is your fault. You are beautiful inside and out. Your husband's wandering eye has nothing to do with you. He is broken; you are not. Soon enough that sparkle in your eyes will return. The confidence in your stride will be back...

I don't know if everyone remembers a previous post: "Crawling Out of the Dark" about a woman going through a difficult time with a cheating spouse. I previously shared her excellent letter to her husband and now here is her letter to the mistress! This fabulous letter is absolutely worth sharing. And here it is! Dear Other Woman, Quite a bit of time has passed since the last time we have seen each other. I do have several questions for you. All of them are cruel and all of them are direct. So let's get started, Question #1 Why my husband?  You would provide oral services for a man and in return get a little bit of attention maybe and if you were lucky some affection. That’s not a relationship, that is a man being a selfish asshole. Question #2 How come you never went away? I hadn’t heard from or about you for years until I was informed you had invited yourself to our wedding.  Are you a whore version of Batman? Hiding in the darkness to prey on marri...

I don't know if everyone remembers a previous post: "Coming Out of the Dark" about a woman going through a difficult time with a cheating spouse. I think she wrote a fabulous letter worth sharing. And here it is! Letter To my “Husband” Dear Husband, While everyone, including myself, is so busy blaming your mistress for your affair I don't want you to forget you are to blame too. In fact you are more to blame than her. You are a horrible person. You have spent our entire relationship lying to me about her. In fact you have spent your entire life lying to everyone. That is how we got to this point, you are a compulsive or maybe even pathological liar. You lie about everything or at the very least exaggerate details in almost every sentence you speak. Your family makes excuses for you, your friends allow you to be dishonest, and you continue to treat people like crap. Basically everything in life is about you and what you want. Never do you stop to think abo...