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In How to Have it All and Keep Your Sanity, Dr. Robin Inwald, and award-winning psychologist and business owner, combines personal experience with well-researched management principles to provide an easy-to-follow guide for success in the workplace. Some of her ABC's for success include M - Motivate others to help you, N - Negotiate for win-win solutions, and O - One step at a time. With humor and an honest appraisal of shortcomings, Dr. Inwald demonstrates, through her own journey and those of others, how you can “have it all” without sacrificing either high standards or your sanity. Her entertaining stories show practical strategies that can be used at home and at work by anyone who wants to reach goals and enjoy and enriched lifestyle.

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Cast-Iron Cooking: From Johnnycakes to Blackened Redfish
A. D. Livingston
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Nothing cooks like cast iron, and Livingston tells you why, with seventy-five delicious recipes.

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Back to Basics Classic.......2006-07-29

Reviewed by Juanita Watson for Reader Views (7/06)

"Cast-Iron Cooking: From Johnnycakes to Blackened Redfish" is a great little cookbook, that contains everything you'd ever want to know regarding the world of cast iron cookery. It features over 75 easy-to-read recipes, and plenty of tried and true tips for cooking with this traditional cookware. Though many have chosen to forgo their cast iron for more modern kitchen pots, skillets, and pans....A.D. Livingston brings the viability of cast-iron cooking back to the forefront. Just one glance though the delicious recipes and drawings of cookware available today, may just inspire you to reach for that old cast-iron that lays somewhere in the far reaches of your cupboard.

With plenty of humorous wit, A.D. Livingston has managed to add much personality into "Cast-Iron Cooking." I really enjoyed reading the personal cooking tips and gained more knowledge that I expected regarding this traditional form of cooking. I feel I am well prepared to cook with cast-iron both in my kitchen, and over a fire on a future camping trip. And ultimately, why not cook with cast-iron....it makes food taste much better, and that's all I need to change my cooking habits.

good stuff!.......2003-08-14

Livingston is fun to read - an ol' guy with down-to-earth smarts who has an appreciation for the subtle humor this subject offers, and a gift for phrasing it - you can tell you'd like to have him for a friend.
but not as much info on using cast iron cookware on a daily basis as i'd like - lotsa outdoor stuff, backwoods cookery, etc.

Get the most from your cast-iron cookware.......1997-08-01

Mr. Livingston does an admirable job of explaining how to use and care for your cast-iron cookware. Whether using a skillet to scramble a few eggs for breakfast, or preparing for a LARGE crowd in a special piece of cookware, this book covers all the bases. If you've never used cast-iron cookware, this is a good introduction to the subject-- cast-iron cookware is different from the other products on the market. If you are a cast-iron afficionado, this "sermon for the choir" will give you some new ideas for good things to do with your treasured skillets and dutch ovens. Warning: the recipes are not all low-fat, low cholesterol, trendy, 90s kind of recipes. They are, however, good! This book would make a great add-on gift with a cast-iron skillet

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Cast-Iron Cooking: From Johnnycakes to Blackened Redfish
A. D. Livingston
Manufacturer: Lyons and Burford
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000TIA0WG

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Mosaic art is a simple, elegant way to enhance the natural beauty of a garden. With Garden Mosaics Made Easy, Jane Pompilio and Cliff Kennedy show readers how to add the subtle charm of mosaics to gardens, with:

-25 step-by-step mosaic projects, most featuring a convenient, ready-to-use design template

-Projects that teach readers how to make mosaics based on photographs

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Gardening enthusiasts and crafters alike will love the ideas in Garden Mosaics Made Easy.

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Better Homes & Gardens - Mosaics Made Easy (Leisure Arts #1938) (Creative Collection)

Manufacturer: Leisure Arts
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Broken objects can become born-again masterpieces! Turn bits and pieces of broken dishes, glass, and tile into the art of mosaics! It's easy - and anything that adheres to the surface can be a part of your mosaic sculpture. Includes paper mosaic.

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Garden Mosaics Made Easy
Jane Pompillo
Manufacturer: NORTH LIGHT BOOKS (D
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In June 1932, pioneering newswoman Lorena Hickok was assigned to FDR's presidential campaign by the Associated Press. To her surprise, she found Eleanor Roosevelt taking special notice of her. As their friendship grew, Hickok's devotion to the future first lady so overcame her scruples that she sent drafts of her articles to the head of Roosevelt's campaign for approval. After the election, the women began the passionate correspondence--cheerful and diary-like on Eleanor's side, and stormy on Lorena's--presented here. As suggestive as these letters seemed when they came to light in 1978, they don't demonstrate conclusively whether the women had a sexual affair, only that they became, for three or four years, each other's "dearest." They kissed and caressed each other and dreamt of a life together away from Washington. What is more significant is that these years marked Eleanor Roosevelt's transformation from a supportive wife to an independent political force, and the letters show Hickok's advice and encouragement to be essential to that transformation. Only with Hickok's support did the first lady gain confidence for her remarkable achievements in race relations and expanded roles for women. Good footnotes supplement the text, but the bland introductory notes can be skipped in favor of the women's story in their own words. --Regina Marler

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Now in paperback: 300 letters between Eleanor Roosevelt and her "first friend" shed new light on their legendary, passionate bond.

In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't always so very discreet in her letters to me"), the find was still electrifying enough to create controversy about the nature of the women's relationship. Historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated more than 300 of those letters--published here for the first time--and put them within the context of the lives of these two extraordinary women, allowing us to understand the role of this remarkable friendship in Roosevelt's transformation into a crusading First Lady.

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The relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok has sparked vociferous debate ever since 1978, when archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library discovered eighteen boxes filled with letters the two women exchanged during their thirty-year friendship. But until now we have been offered only the odd quotation or excerpt from their voluminous correspondence. In "Empty Without You", journalist and historian Rodger Streitmatter has transcribed and annotated 300 letters that shed new light on the legendary, passionate, and intense bond between these extraordinary women. Written with the candor and introspection of a private diary, the letters expose the most private thoughts, feelings, and motivations of their authors and allow us to assess the full dimensions of a remarkable friendship. From the day Eleanor moved into the White House and installed Lorena in a bedroom just a few feet from her own, each woman virtually lived for the other. When Lorena was away, Eleanor kissed her picture of "dearest Hick" every night before going to bed, while Lorena marked the days off her calendar in anticipation of their next meeting. In the summer of 1933, Eleanor and Lorena took a three-week road trip together, often traveling incognito. The friends even discussed a future in which they would share a home and blend their separate lives into one. Perhaps as valuable as these intimations of a love affair are the glimpses this collection offers of an Eleanor Roosevelt strikingly different from the icon she has become. Although the figure who emerges in these pages is as determined and politically adept as the woman we know, she is also surprisingly sarcastic and funny, tender and vulnerable, and even judgmental and petty-- all less public but no less important attributes of our most beloved first lady.

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Absolutely intriguing!.......2006-10-07

This well-edited book definitely preserves the intimacy of the relationship between ER and Hick. Regardless of your personal interpretation of their relationship, the book makes for fascinating reading. There are many "behind the scenes" details of the workings of the New Deal and other social and political events of the time. This book is nothing less than fascinating.

A moving love story in spite of the author.......2005-10-30

If you read the letters and not the "explanations" of Streitmatter, you know that this was a classic love affair of the first order. Passionate, intense, full of high levels of emotion, intermixed with politics and social issues of the day. For anyone to read these letters and deny that these women enjoyed each others bodies as much as their minds is really outside the realm of human experience. The question of course that remains is the unequivocal statement by both John Kerrey and John Edwards in the debates in 2004 when they proclaimed that you are "born" a lesbian as they tried to make political points with the sexual orientation of Dick Cheney's daughter. Did Eleanor have a lesbian relationship with "Hick?" Most certainly. Was she born that way and have a "traditional" marriage with many kids fathered by FDR just as a cover? I doubt it, but who knows; which was Bush's much more honest answer in response to the "lesbian" question.
Was FDR a liar of the first order? He ran in 1940 for the unprecedented third term on the basis of never "sending American men to fight foreign wars" while planning to do so at the same time. Someone so deceitful was most certainly well practiced in the art while having affairs with women at the same time Eleanor was bearing his children. Did she turn to other women for the love that FDR failed to give her, or did he turn to other women because she was really "born" a lesbian. We will probably never know the truth of their relationship, but the letters between Eleanor and "Hick" are pure honest love. The only reason I don't give this book five stars is that the author gets in the way of the story.

Empty Without You is a little empty..........2004-05-23

As an avid reader of all things Roosevelt, I was rather disappointed in Rodger Streitmatter's Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok. The story of how Eleanor and Lorena (Hick) became such intimate friends (maybe even physically intimate) is a fascinating one. Hick was a hard-nosed AP reporter who had a successful 20 year career in a profession dominated almost exclusively by men. In the course of covering FDR's first campaign, she found a kindred spirit in Eleanor. Both women were needy: they both had tough childhoods, suffered humiliations and tragedies, and were deeply wounded by those they loved. They struck up a lifelong friendship, although the intensity of this relationship waned after the first 3 years. During the course of this friendship, they wrote each other almost every day, and sometimes more than one letter in a day. Hick also lived at the White House for some of this time.

What I found so disappointing about Empty Without You is that out of the many thousands of letters that Eleanor and Hick exchanged throughout their lifetime, Hick destroyed a good many of them-especially those letters from the beginning of their relationship when it was the most intense. There are not many surprises here, and those few that allow a peak at their level of intimacy have been extensively quoted in other Roosevelt books. Also, I found that the story itself is rather depressing. Hick gave Eleanor the knowledge and power to recast the job of First Lady so that Eleanor could better achieve her own political agenda. She encouraged Eleanor to give weekly news conferences with only women reporters invited. She also prodded Eleanor to start writing newspaper columns-monthly at first, and then her daily My Day column that ran for 27 years. Finally, Hick suggested that Eleanor write her autobiography before FDR's first term was even finished. At first, Eleanor depended on Hick to help her with her writing. But Eleanor was a quick study and soon no longer needed Hick. Unfortunately, in broadening her horizons, Eleanor had less and less time for Hick. To make matters worse, Hick was forced to give up her newspaper job because of conflicts of interest, and took on a job traveling the country on behalf of FERA to report on the progress of relief programs. Hick missed the career that had brought her great success, name recognition, positive reinforcement and financial security. Hick also suffered from depression and mood swings-especially when her time with Eleanor did not go as planned. Unfortunately for Hick, her ugly and frequent outbursts were an embarrassment to Eleanor and had just the opposite effect: instead of bringing them even closer, Eleanor started to pull away. Still, Eleanor never completely abandoned Hick and did much to take care of her (especially financially) as they aged.

One thing that I did enjoy about Empty Without You are the reports that Hick wrote for FERA. Although she mostly gave snippets of these in her letters to Eleanor, boss Harry Hopkins was correct when he predicted that Hick's well-written reports would in the future become a window on the Great Depression. But overall, there is not much new or enlightening in this book. If you want to know more about the relationship between Eleanor and Lorena, I'd stick with Doris Faber's Life of Lorena Hickok: E.R.'s Friend.

ER and Hick emerge as real women.......2002-12-24

Eleanor Roosevelt has been an inspiration ever since I was a young girl, a terrific role model for political activists, humanitarians, and women and girls of all ages. But she is often portrayed in biographies (excepting Blanche Wiesen Cook's wonderful recent work) as a cold fish in her personal life. This is one of the reasons that any fan of ER should read these letters. ER is passionate, caring, needy, annoyed - real emotions from a real woman. We also get a look at Lorena Hickok - Hick - beyond the stereotypes, as a woman deeply in love and troubled by the lack of an exclusive relationship.

One problem I have with the book, though, is not letting whole letters speak for themselves, revealing more of the political discussions that seem to have been a big part of both women's lives and their attraction to one another. Were they lovers? They were certainly "in love," and regardless of where they drew the physical line, this book reveals foremothers any woman, lesbians included, should be proud to claim.

True Friendship.......2002-12-16

If only we all could find one good friend as they found each other. I enjoyed the book very much. Well, written and organized to chronicle Mrs. Roosevelt's life behind the scenes

Empty Without You: the Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

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Empty Without You: the Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok
Rodger Streitmatter
Manufacturer: Da Capo
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSKCLU

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Slumber parties, swimming pools, boyfriends, lakeside summers, family holidays--Susan Allen Toth has captured it all in this delightful account of growing up in Ames, Iowa, in the 1950's. Charming, wise, funny, poignant, and true, Blooming celebrates an innocent and very American way of life.

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Growing up at America's core.......2003-02-13

Susan Allen Toth first appeared on my radar screen with her three volumes of travel essays on England (MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH ENGLAND, ENGLAND FOR ALL SEASONS, ENGLAND AS YOU LIKE IT). She's a soul mate. In BLOOMING, penned in the late 70s, Ms. Toth shares coming-of-age memories as delightful as those from another of my favorite authors, Laura Shaine Cunningham (SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS, A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY).

Susan was born in 1940, and BLOOMING is her account of life in Ames, Iowa until she went East to college in 1957. The ability to relate will increase to the degree that the reader's background shares commonality with the following: maturing in the late 40s and 50s, living in a Midwest plains state, being female. I can only claim identity with the first, but that limited coincidence didn't affect my ability to thoroughly enjoy this volume.

Toth's remarkable memory of her childhood and teenage years could serve as the source for Norman Rockwell paintings as she remembers swimming pools, boyfriends, girlfriends, science classes, the public library, parties, summer jobs, the traditional holidays, and yearly trips to the Minnesota lake where relatives owned a cabin. She was unusually reticent about her immediate family. We learn only that her father died when she was in the third grade, and she and her sister were raised by their mother, a teacher. This absence of familial information is somewhat disappointing as it's perhaps a gold mine of stories not told. For instance, Susan writes about her sister, one year older:

"My sister and I, who fought most of the time, declared an unspoken truce on Christmas morning and hugged awkwardly as we exchanged gifts. For those brief moments, we really wanted to please each other." So, what did they fight over? Boys? Clothes? Maternal attention?

The realist might point out that most of the world's children, and many in America didn't live formative years as idyllic as depicted in BLOOMING. True enough. But I lived the male version in Southern California, and Toth's was sufficiently similar in rhythm to remind me of those Good Ol' Days when I didn't know how good I had it. Thank you, Susan.

I Lived A Similiar Enjoyable Life.......2001-02-16

Once I began reading this great book, it was hard to take a break for even mealtimes. When I was growing up here in Ohio during the 1950s, it was quite a bit like in the author's story. Not perfect, but a very good life!

The Good Ole Days.......2000-12-01

It's a refreshing Step Back In Time reading. Difficult to believe such an era ever existed. Today's readers will learn a lot about how to live a simpler, equally enjoyable life.

Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood.......2000-03-13

A superbly written book. Here in Omaha, our many neighborhoods were like a dozen Ames, Iowa towns. It's history now, but at least we can re-experience some of the pleasant memories by reading this story.

Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood.......2000-02-28

This is the most interesting book I have ever read about growing up in the Nifty Fifties. Nothing can compare to that era, even though I am younger. Times since then have been terribly stressful in this nation. It's a joy to re-read the book, and drift back to peacefulness. Gosh, the author is age 60 this year of 2000 ! Time flies by too fast. Ames, Iowa has been blessed to remain a smaller city, and has a great past.

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Blooming: A Small Town Girlhood
Susan Allen Toth
Manufacturer: Little Brown & Company
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Binding: Paperback
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Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood
Susan Allen Toth
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Blooming - A Small-Town Girlhood
Susan Allen Toth
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Blooming: A Small Town Girlhood

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One of 300 numbered copies. Excerpt from "Blooming: A Small Town Girlhood".

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Everyone's Problem Solving Handbook: Step-By-Step Solutions for Quality Improvement (Productivity's Shopfloor)
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The Educator's Income Tax Guide (36th annual edition) contains detailed explanations of how the various provisions and interpretations of the tax code directly relate to educators. This handy resource will be invaluable whether you prepare your own return or utilize the services of a paid tax professional.

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