Holiday 12 Stepping - Part I - 12 Step Recovery
Make a plan for maintaining balance in your life through the holidays. And beyond. Take a few minutes every day to sit in silence, praying or meditating or just listening to the stillness of the moment. Make a plan for eating healthier and ... [... more]
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Spinning without Pain - Spinning
Nothing will ruin your spinning time more quickly than pain. Sometime you experience pain while spinning and sometimes it comes the next day. Either way, it discourages one from wanting to sit and spin again. There are several causes to this pain ... [... more]
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School Reform at BellaOnline.com - School Reform
Related Links: Tomorrow's Teachers School Reform at BellaOnline.com - School Reform at BellaOnline.com - School Reform is a personally written site at BellaOnline School Reform at BellaOnline.com Guest Author - Editor Wanted [... more]
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Making & Using Control Cards - Spinning
We all have many demands on our time: jobs, family and social obligations. We have errands to run and appointments to keep. With our busy life styles, it's not always easy to find the time to simply sit and spin. Many of us have only a few ... [... more]
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Review of Strip & Knit with Style - Knitting
Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski, published by C & T; Publishing, is a book that marries knitting and woven fabrics. Hordyszynski uses fabric to create strips and then proceeds to knit with them. He talks about the properties of ... [... more]
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The Tao of Sobriety - 12 Step Recovery
Every now and then I reach out there into the blue and surprise myself with a thought or concept that works. I was thinking about H.O.W. (honesty, open-mindedness and willingness) and mentally began rhyming. I ended up with "Tao", looked it up [... more]
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An Attitude of Gratitude - 12 Step Recovery
I have a post-it on my computer at work with only one word, "gratitude". The thing that sometimes bothers me is that it is there for me to see every single day and yet there are days I don't see it at all. It actually becomes invisible. I only . [... more]
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A New Year Thank You - 12 Step Recovery
Happy New Year! My latest article "An Attitude of Gratitude" reminded me that I have all of you to thank for making my 2008 a sober one. I am not sure that it was my "best" or a year I feel I accomplished a great deal but I didn't [... more]
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Conditioning Your Hand Cards - Spinning
While we expect new equipment to work well right away, this is not always the case with a new pair of hand cards. The wire teeth of the carding cloth may have tiny burrs on the cut ends of the wire and these little burrs will catch the wool ... [... more]
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Completing the Circle - 12 Step Recovery
My article last week focused on the importance of being a sponsor, not to mention my own views of when one should consider sponsoring. It is my hope that at least one of you who read that article was encouraged to move forward and sponsor. If you ... [... more]
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'I WILL NOT BE BROKEN - 12 Step Recovery
One of the best perks about writing the 12 Step Recovery articles is that I am offered books to read and share with my readers. It is important to me when I accept a book to be honest. Being honest means reading the book in its entirety no matter ... [... more]
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Faith in Action - 12 Step Recovery
Recently I received an email from a reader who lived in a rural area. She wanted to know if I could offer her any ideas as to a meeting agenda for women in recovery. A couple of the women, herself included, were in AA but there were women with ... [... more]
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