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- ***Open Face Vegetarian Chili Orgy - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOPEN FACE VEGETARIAN CHILI ORGY Oil warms in a large fry pan, getting acquainted with half a head of jumbo garlic that left the food processor finely honed. A bunch of green onions (white and green, whole body) are getting chopped while the other ingredients get together in that pan, and the ...
Views: 2912(4 votes) - ***Overcoming Fear and Hearing Voices with Oedipus - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOvercoming Fear and Hearing Voices with Oedipus When I was a kid I used to chat with adults waiting for the bus on bus benches. Taking opinion polls with this captive audience in the summer in south Florida in the Fifties was easy. People will tell a kid anything when there's absolutely ...
Views: 3487(16 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur—Marketing Yourself - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromReading Tarot as a Business, the Sensitive Entrepreneur—Marketing This is the second article in a series designed to be a handbook on what is required to be the entrepreneurial psychic, the sole practitioner who owns his own successful psychic business. Service professionals can apply most of ...
Views: 5983(6 votes) - ***Zucchini-from-Hell, a Heavenly Recipe for Them - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhere I live, in the dead of night people whose gardens have produced many of those monster zucchini will sneak onto the doorsteps of their neighbors and leave them. Here is a recipe to make easy and fantastic use of one or more of the monsters. Got a steamer? If not put a colander or large ...
Views: 2519(6 votes) - Faith - It's not about Religion, It's about Reality Testing - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSpiritual life is real life. It's who you really are - even who you are when you aren't living physically anymore. In a sense, what you are is your beliefs, your values. Seekers of actionable and factual information, however, are inundated by theory, propaganda and religious politics. It's so ...
Views: 3097(2 votes) - ***Wealth and Success: Your Individual Path There - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWealth and Success: Your Individual Path There Be very aware that making wealth and keeping wealth are not the same thing. People who are successes are doing both. This is like the difference between marrying Mr. Right, and marrying Mr. Right with the right relationship for you. Half a loaf ...
Views: 2980(11 votes) - ***Bacon Flavored Red Meat Treat You Don't Have to be a Man to Eat (Recipes for You, You Don't Cook!) - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromPeel about half a head of garlic and leave it in tiny pieces in your food chopper. If you don't have a food chopper, get one – and for now just smash the garlic in a baggie with a hammer. This will motivate you to get a food chopper. I know this! Cut any red meat into bite-sized thin ...
Views: 3510(6 votes) - ***Ginger Honey Soy Coffee - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromGINGER HONEY SOY COFFEE You would never know coffee is under all this when you are done. Even if you don't like coffee, you will adore this. Forget those $5 lattes. The Cowboy Bible says “Drink thy coffee hot and strong and black,” but all the cowboys but one that I served this to ...
Views: 3569(6 votes) - ***The Lava Lamp Drink: Just Looking At It Makes You Feel Good! - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromEMILY'S ELIXIR a/k/a The Lava Lamp Drink You can feel good looking at this drink. Find 3 champagne flutes (glasses. Tall, stemmed, slim tulip shape a/k/a “champagne glasses”) for each person. This shape is necessary for the lava lamp effect. Have a bottle of Cook's champagne – if ...
Views: 4853(3 votes) - ***Success: The First Step; How George Got Out of the Ghetto - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSuccess: The First Step, How George got out of the Ghetto Here is this book that was old in l959. George Washington Carver (the renowned head professor of the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee University; researcher into, and promoter of, alternative crops to cotton in the Reconstruction ...
Views: 2803(10 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business—Levels of Skill Seldom Lead to Successful Business Ownership - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-Sandstrom*Reading Tarot for yourself is one skill. The first phase, of course, is simply discovering cards' meanings. There are a number of ways to do this. Learning is between yourself and the deck, and is at your own leisure. You don't have to be correct. This is a fun activity, and you can do it ...
Views: 4154(12 votes) - ***Reading Tarot as a Business, Choosing Clients, Client Relations for the Sensitive Entrepreneur - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromAccepting whatever client happens when beginning a service business as an entrepreneur is normal. It can be a ruinous detour as a regular practice, though; and you may not be aware of the illfated turn at the time it happens. Example: I opened a court reporting office without directly ...
Views: 4141(13 votes) - ***Garlic Ginger Butter with Marjoram & Grape Seed Oil - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2009 from Emily Erickson-SandstromGARLIC GINGER BUTTER with Marjoram & grape seed oil This is a spread to die for, a spreadable butter that is healthful. This is a pasta dressing to live for. It makes half a Wolferman's sour dough English muffin a rich meal. This is also what to cook just about anything in, and it will ...
Views: 3254(3 votes) - ***The Lottery Entity and You: A Meeting, A Chat - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromTrying to pick the winning number is going about it backasswards. This story is how to win in any type of gamble but of course it doesn't guarantee you will succeed any given incident. It may work for gambles in business and in getting away with your mischief, but I am less sure of ...
Views: 2998(4 votes) - ***The Talk: The Tennessee Expert - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe lanky blond man bends to come in the door of the deposition room. I am there with my Stenograph set up ready to go. It's always best when an expert witness is the first to arrive: You can chitchat with him, put him at ease, find out what he is an expert in and how he talks, because you ...
Views: 2948(1 vote) - ***SELECTIVE ADVERTISING -- A POEM FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2010 from Emily Erickson-SandstromAll this material on the Internet that suggests you hype to thousands and hope a few souls bite creates a cacophony like coyotes on the mountainside howling for blood. And who wants to buy? About as many as want to meet the coyotes. If you are selling objects that are inexpensive, ...
Views: 5594(15 votes) - ***Leadership: Tale of Two Cats, Tale of Two Dogs - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromOwly and his sidekick Iggy. Molly and her sidekick Li'l Dude. The same story. Molly was a Jerry Lee type of German Sheppard: the medium brown body and black muzzle. She was from the pound, a young adult who had lived in the truck of an unemployed homeless rural western dude, with him. ...
Views: 3006(5 votes) - ***Profit on an Old Grove: The Last Hurrah - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromThe old orange grove had seen its last bearing days years ago. The trees were ancient gnarled and unattended. Everyone knew there was to be no citrus coming from there. It was the 1920s in south Florida, then a backwater swamp populated by vacationers who spent all their cash and never could ...
Views: 2382(17 votes) - ***Exactly How to Find Your Meanings for Tarot, and Your Meaning for Life - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromHere’s how - without any instructions - you find your meanings of any deck of Tarot cards if it pictures scenes of social situations. *Make a list of questions you know the answers to. The question should be something you are sure of because your answer is the unknown in the ...
Views: 2399 - ***HERE’S HOW YOU FIND YOUR MEANINGS OF TAROT CARDS - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromYes, the books are nonsense. I remember one that had ‘a melancholy youth’ for the Rider Waite Page of Swords, which clearly depicts a person in the grip of paranoia. (I did find one book that was mostly all right.) What you need, especially if you use Tarot ‘not for entertainment only,’ is ...
Views: 2752 - ***Making the Best Mistakes - A Recipe - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromSimmering just below most people's awareness most of the time is an instinct for not making a mistake, not being wrong. It can be a quiet but steady unease that makes a person less comfortable in his own skin. Having to choose one right thing, the most right thing, instead of a right thing ...
Views: 2386 - ***Putting up with Torina the Terrible - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Emily Erickson-SandstromWhat Was in it for Him? Everyone wondered how this sweet-natured good-looking man put up with Torina the Terrible. Torina owned this huge clubhouse on the golf course with its restaurant and bar, spa and the works. She reminded me of Catherine the Great – same dull and powerful look, same ...
Views: 2374 - December 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Emily Erickson-SandstromDecember 21, 2012, Doomsday or Ascension Day, Whatever Breaking my custom, today on my blog, I ask a question, "Tell us all about this doomsday or big day thing?" Our overall message is that since you don't really know about it, and since there's nothing you can do about it, just let it ...
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