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By: Rachel
Since I wrote The Smart Girl's Guide to Going Vegetarian, I've had the opportunity to be in touch with all kinds of interesting people in the plant-based world. One person I've been so excited to chat with is Sharon Palmer, RDN, author of The Plant-Powered Diet and Plant-Powered For Life (we actually knew each other through our work a while back, and it's been so nice to reconnect!). Sharon is an amazing resource for people of all ages who are interested in shifting toward a more plant-centric way of eating. What I especially love about Sharon's approach is that she puts the focus on "more" and not "less"—in other words, when you're reading one of her books, articles, or blog posts, the emphasis is on delicious food and whole-food ingredients that put plants at the center.
I wanted to interview Sharon for the SmartGirlVeg blog because I often hear from parents who are anxious about their kids going veg, since they worry about what they will feed a house full of people with different eating styles. Well, Sharon is a mom who navigates this challenge every day, and she has loads of tricks up her sleeves to make it work for everyone.
Here are the highlights of my conversation with Sharon Palmer, RDN.
SGV: How did you become a plant-powered eater?
SP: I was raised in a semi-vegetarian family. We rarely ate meat, so I was used to meals that didn't include meat. In fact, I didn't really like the taste of meat growing up. Later on, even when I didn't call myself a vegetarian, I rarely ate meat and would choose other things on the menu—I was essentially a flexitarian even though this term had not yet been coined. As I learned more about nutrition, become a registered dietitian, and grew more interested in the food system and sustainability, I gradually turned to an increasingly plant-based diet. I went from pescatarian for some time to lacto ovo vegetarian. Then I tried a vegan diet as research, and I found that I really liked it!
SGV: There are so many ways to classify one's self as a plant-based eater. How do you categorize yourself—or do you stay away from labels?
SP: I like to use the term plant-based. I don't really like these narrow categories people use, and some people have a negative attitude towards the word "vegan", which I don't understand personally! But I prefer more positive terms, such as plant-based. My diet focuses on plant foods.
SGV: Keeping it positive—love it! We always say "put the focus on what you're adding, not subtracting." On that note, what are the five top "must have" plant-powered foods in your kitchen?
SP: I always have a variety of whole grains on hand—always steel cut oats, farro, brown rice, quinoa and usually even more, such as teff, millet, rye, barley, and amaranth. I also always have a variety of dried beans on hand—I collect heirloom beans! They are so fun and interesting. Right now I have some Yellow Indian Woman beans, Rattlesnake beans, and flageolet beans. But I also have dal, lentils, black beans, and chickpeas, too. I always have extra-firm tofu in my fridge. I can make that into a plethora of healthy dishes all week long: stir-fries, curries, baked tofu, tofu lasagna, tofu pot pie…the list goes on.
I always have fresh, seasonal fruit and vegetables from the farmers market. In the cooler months I have chard, squash, sweet potatoes, apples, pears, persimmons, and pomegranates in my fridge. I always have a variety of nuts and seeds in my freezer (they store better there), such as walnuts, pistachios, almonds, hemp, and chia.
SGV: You have so many great recipes in your repertoire. What is your favorite meal to make for someone who is hesitant about plant-based diets?
SP: I like to make things that aren't obviously plant-based, but are obviously good! One of my most popular dishes hands down is my Southwest Mango Black Bean Quinoa Salad. It's like a meal in one: black beans, quinoa, mangos, cilantro, spices, bell pepper, corn! People don't even realize that they're eating a plant-based meal when they eat this as the main star of the plate.
SGV: Here at SGV HQ, we hear a lot from parents of those girls (and boys!) who want to go vegetarian. They often think that when family members have different eating styles, it means they will become a short-order cook. What is your take on this, as a mom? What are some techniques you use to please everyone without spending your life in the kitchen (which, as a busy professional, you clearly do not!).
SP: Well, I became completely plant-based later in life, when my kids and husband had already developed their eating styles. So, I can identify with this. My philosophy is that we all should eat more plant-based, no matter what our chosen diet style is. And I feel that choosing your diet is a personal choice—I never put pressure on anyone to be vegetarian or vegan. But I do put pressure on people to eat more plant-based meals during the week. So, if your son or daughter is going plant-based, embrace eating more of these meals as you may gain positive benefits, too!
The way that I handle this eating style dilemma in my own home is that I make a range of healthy, delicious plant-based foods and then everyone at the table can choose from it. For example, I may have soup and/or salad, a bean dish, a grain dish, and sautéed vegetables. If my family, who are very pro-plant but not 100%, wants a piece of grilled fish to go with the meal, they can do so and add it to the table. I think this is a good strategy. Another strategy is to eat more interactive meals. One of my family favorites is Pho. I make homemade broth and cook the noodles, then I have a tray of interactive ingredients to add to the dish: diced tofu or seitan, greens, cilantro, basil, limes, chili, green onions, sprouts, etc. My husband may decide to add some diced cooked chicken as another option. You can do the same thing with meals like tacos (BYO tacos with all of the fixings), burritos, and pasta night. Another thing you can do is make vegetarian versions of your favorite meals. For example, if you have a meat lasagna, swap the meat for more veggies so that the whole family enjoys one of the classic favorites.
SGV: Some parents think that feeding their kids vegetarian foods means spending a lot of money. Myth or reality? How do you recommend people keep costs down on plant-powered diets?
SP: Actually, a plant-based diet can be less expensive, because meat is generally the most expensive thing on the plate. That's not to say that you can't spend a lot of money choosing expensive plant-based things, like berries out of season or organic macadamia nuts by the bagful! But in general, you can't provide protein at a much cheaper cost than in peanut butter and beans! And using seasonal produce—even canned and frozen—will help keep costs down.
SGV: Can you share one of your favorite recipes with us?
SP: Sure! Here's my Vegetable Tofu Pho:
Vegetable Tofu Pho
Makes 4 servings
4 cups reduced-sodium vegetable broth
1/2 medium yellow onion, chopped
1/2 cup sliced shitake mushrooms
1 medium carrot, sliced
4 garlic cloves, minced
8 thin slices peeled fresh ginger root
1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon agave syrup
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 cinnamon sticks
2 star anise pods
1/2 teaspoon whole coriander
6 sprigs of fresh basil
6 sprigs of fresh cilantro
One 8-ounce package flat brown rice noodles
One 15-ounce package extra firm tofu, pressed, cubed
2 bunch greens (i.e. Swiss chard, spinach, kale) sliced thinly
1/2 cup coarsely chopped cilantro
½ cup coarsely chopped basil
1 small lime, cut into wedges
1 small jalapeño pepper, seeded and diced
4 green onions, sliced
1. To prepare the broth: Combine all the broth ingredients in a large pot, cover, and bring to a low boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain the broth, discarding the vegetables and seasonings. Return the strained broth to the pot, cover, and keep warm (broth should be bubbling right before serving time). While broth is cooking, prepare noodles and toppings.
2. To prepare the noodles: Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Add the rice noodles, cover, and cook until just tender, about 5 minutes, or according to package directions. Drain the noodles immediately and rinse with hot water. Return the drained noodles to the pot and cover.
3. To prepare the toppings: Arrange the toppings on a large platter.
4. To serve the soup, divide the noodles among four very large soup bowls. Either garnish the noodles with desired toppings or let your guests do their own. Ladle boiling broth over the noodles and toppings, and serve immediately. Allow hot broth to wilt vegetables and cool slightly before eating it.
We had a great time talking with Sharon Palmer! Have you checked out her books yet? Or made one of her recipes? You definitely should! Let us know what you think in the space below.


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Charming Grace
Her Harvard-student son just eloped with the First Daughter. CNN is parked on the road to her apple orchards. Secret Service agents have commandeered her country kitchen. The irate First Parents are threatening to have her taxes audited. The President's handsome, tough, ex-military nephew is setting up camp in her guest room. Hush McGillan's quiet Appalachian world of heirloom apples, country festivals, and carefully guarded family secrets has just been flipped like one of her famous Sweet Hush Apple Turnovers. What do you do when your brand-new in-laws are the First Family, and they don't like you any more than you like them? And what happens next when you find yourself falling in love with the man they sent to unearth all your secrets?
From the White House to the apple house, from humor to tears and sorrow to laughter, get ready to fall in love with Sweet Hush. Optioned for Disney Films by the producer of The Princess Diaries.
Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place To Call Home, The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain, and many others.
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Charming Grace
Chapter OneGrace Bagshaw Vance will end up in jail, in the gutter, or drunk on martinis in some fancy nuthatch for ex-beauty queens," people whispered about me. "Bless Her Heart."
It was true. By the day Stone Senterra came to my Georgia hometown to make a movie about my husband, Harp Vance, I was ready to kill him and accept the consequences. I'd become a deadly, determined, Bless Her Heart kind of southern belle. A cracked belle, you could say. Grieving can take over a person's life like a sinister charm, inspiring good causes and noble dedication at the expense of true healing. It's possible to both pity and fear a mourner who's gone just a little bit funny and more than a little bit dangerous. I qualified on both counts. In the South, the dreaded BHH is attached to your name with admiring sympathy but also a dollop of fear. You are no longer a dependably entertaining person and may even stoop to becoming an embarrassment.
Be afraid, Dahlonegans whispered. Be very afraid. Bless Her Heart.
Two years ago, Harp, an agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, tracked down a killer the media had dubbed the Turnkey Bomber. After months of cat-and-mouse games through the mountains of Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, Harp and the serial-killing psychopath faced off on the roof of one of the largest hospitals in Atlanta. And there, on a hot summer morning when the sun rose over the city like an orange eye, my husband stopped the crazy bastard from exploding a bomb that would have killed a lot of people. Harp took six bullets to the chest before he sank a hunting knife into the Turnkey's throat. His police methods had never followed the rules. Neither did his death. The only rules he ever believed in were the ones I imposed on him out of love.
Helicopter cameramen from CNN's Atlanta headquarters and the local TV stations broadcast the death fight with the bomber as it happened, so the whole world watched Harp sacrifice his own life to save the hospital. I watched, too, in horror, from my hostess chair on the set of a silly morning talk show called Atlanta A.M. My husband had been a loner and a damaged soul and an idealist and a cynic and a lover and my best friend since we were kids. I got to the emergency room only in time to cry my heart out and whisper, "It's all right. Don't be afraid of the dark. I'll always be there with you," before he took his last breath.
I had been there, in that darkness, fighting to keep a light burning for him ever since.
So, on a cool May morning, while Stone Senterra cruised up the mountain interstate in his limousine, I planned my ambush. Senterra and his people were scheduled to start on-location filming from an old campground that Senterra Films had leased as a base of operations. I intended to block Stone's way with the one material he respected. Stone.
"Stand back. I'm dropping the whole load on the count of five," I called out the dump truck's window. My grandmother Helen-known to her three children and ten grandchildren not as Grandmother, Grandma, or Granny, but as the elegant and indomitable G. Helen-tucked her pearls inside her cashmere-trimmed denim jacket, fluffed graying auburn hair, then motioned to Harp's teenage niece, Mika DuLane. "Five means four and a promise to your impatient Aunt Grace," G. Helen warned the eighteen-year-old.
Mika nodded. "Let's boogie."
My tall, elegant, Irish-pale grandmother sashayed briskly alongside the short, cute, mocha-skinned Mika, whose idea of fashion was an Army jacket covered in computer-game logos. When she and G. Helen reached the side of the steep road, Mika called back, "Aunt Grace, maybe you should wait while I do some calculations to estimate the area of spillage based on the tonnage and the maximum angle of the dump truck's bed." She reached inside the Army jacket for her Palm Pilot.
"Aim for the center line and let 'er rip," G. Helen called. Then to Mika, "Sweetie pie, sometimes we just have to dump our load and get the hell out of the way."
I pulled a lever. The truck's bed upended and gray dust gushed out as tons of silver-gray gravel spilled onto the asphalt. When I finished, a small mountain of rocks blocked both lanes of the only paved road that led to Stone Senterra's mountain production headquarters. The road's grassy shoulders dropped immediately into deep gulches filled with boulders and laurel. Stone Senterra wouldn't be able to reach his luxury house trailer or his Quonset-hut film-editing lab or his picnic-pavilion-turned-personal-gym. He'd have to deal with me.
Face-to-Stone face.
I climbed atop my barricade of metaphorically crushed Stone Senterra, pulled Harp's favorite leather-brimmed hat low over my forehead, laid G. Helen's antique shotgun across my updrawn knees, and set a magnificent wild orchid beside me in her moss-stained clay pot. A pink, pouch-shaped bloom, as delicate as a ballet slipper, hung from the orchid's slender stem. It had bloomed that morning as if it knew Harp and I needed its support. There was no way past me, the shotgun, and the native ladyslipper orchid Harp had named Dancer.
The morning grew quiet as the deep shush of settling rock faded away. Ridges of pines and greening hardwoods marched toward a horizon of rounded, fog-gray mountains and deep, mystic hollows. Deer and bear sniffed the air as if sensing the impending aroma of city slickers.
"I'm set," I called to G. Helen and Mika. "Go home and call that list of media contacts I gave you, all right? Dancer and I'll take care of the situation here. Don't worry about me. A grand jury of Lumpkin County folk will vote a no-bill on the attempted homicide charge so fast they'll be home for the lunchtime reruns of Matlock."
"If you do shoot," G. Helen said, "at least don't aim for Senterra's head."
I nodded. "It wouldn't do any good. He has no brain."
G. Helen rolled her eyes. Mika stared at me, her eyes dark with amazement. She came from the very rich, very elegant DuLanes of Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit, tasteful people didn't shoot at movie stars. They also didn't name their orchids and talk to them. "I'll visit you in prison," she called.
G. Helen and Mika left in G. Helen's dark-blue Lincoln. My hands sweated on the stock of the shotgun, where a silver plate was engraved with words that summed up everything G. Helen had taught me about life.
Always fight back. And aim higher than you need to.
I bent my head and prayed. Harp, I'll never stop defending you. Please let me know that I'm doing it the right way. Please let me know that Dancer bloomed this morning as a sign to keep fighting.
Silence. Harp was whispering to me less and less lately. Plus he'd never had a way with words and never believed in telling other people, or wild orchids, how to live their lives, as long as they hurt no one but themselves. Waiting for Harp to come back to life was no use. Of course I knew that. But I had no idea he was about to send me a stranger named Boone Noleene with his answer. Or that maybe Boone was the answer.
Poor, brave man.
Bless His Heart.
ASK GRACE "WHO'S BOONE Noleene and what job does he do for Stone Senterra?" and she'd have given you one of her solemn, beauty-queen-being-polite-in-the-interview looks while she thought it over.
What would I do to achieve world peace? I'd spread more love, everywhere!
Who is Boone Noleene and what job does he do for Stone Senterra?
"I believe I read in People magazine that he walks Stone's pig," she'd have said.
And she'd have been right.
His name-the pig's-was Shrek. He'd been named by Stone's little girls, who doted on the swaybacked, Vietnamese, pork-belly snot-snout.
"What's Shrek's Cajun name, Boonie?" the girls asked me all the time, just to hear my answer in French. Sweet little darlin's, just six and eight. They called me Boonie, Boo, the Boo-man. They didn't understand the fading tattoos, the busted nose, the bullet and blade scars from New Orleans street fights. I was just Boonie, the tall man Papa trusted to guard them. Stone knew I'd take a fist in the gut for their sakes. For his sake, too. For his nice-kid teenage son, Leo. For his smart-tough-classy wife, Kanda.
Stone, who liked to brag that he'd played more lawmen than John Wayne and Clint Eastwood combined, had picked me out of Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary three years ago to be his little rehabilitate-a-paroled-con project. It looked good for his image, he said. Stone never liked to come across as sentimental. But let me tell you what he did for me, and why I respected him.
I walked out of Angola without a penny to my name and nothing but denim blues on my back. There he was, Mr. Superstar, waiting for me in a limo. Him and Kanda. I guess he didn't want me to think he was hittin' on me. Anyway, a limo. And his wife. A man doesn't just present any old so-and-so to his wife. Stone introduced me like I was a regular somebody, and then Kanda, who's a combination of Jewish Wisconsin farm girl, Hollywood businesswoman, and soccer mom, hugged me. Hugged me-a paroled con she'd just met.
"First we're going to fly to L.A.," he said, "and then when we get there, the next thing, we're going shopping. You need some threads, mister. Then, once we get you spiffed up, you and me are going to a private mass in honor of your new life."
"And then I'm taking you to meet my rabbi," Kanda added. "If you don't mind."
I was dazed, drunk on fresh air and freedom, stunned by the turn my life had taken. All I remember saying to Kanda was, "I got nothing against going to mass or visitin' rabbis. But I'd appreciate it y'all would have your priest and your rabbi call my brother, Armand, and give him a good word or two, I'd appreciate it, merci bien. I kind of hate leaving him here in prison, alone."
She looked at me kindly. "Of course."
Stone planted a big, movie-star hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry about Armand. The day he walks out of here, I'll be waiting for him, too."
Imagine that.
I kept trying to say thank-you-why-are-you-doing-this, but he brushed me off. He launched into a long, rambling story about how his old man deserted their family when he was a kid, just like mine and Armand's had, but how he couldn't complain because at least his mother hadn't died when he was a kid like ours had, no, she'd remarried and kept a roof over the family's head, although the man she married was a big, mean dockworking bastard, so Stone had grown up fighting the steppapa for everything plus defending a baby half sister, Diamond, from him.
"See?" Stone finished. "You and me, Noleene, we're both survivors. We're tough guys. We're simpatico." He paused. "By the way, if you screw up this chance I'm giving you? I'll kill you."
"I won't screw up," I said.
Even now, three years later, I still didn't know why Stone Senterra, a wealthy, famous stranger, felt the need to treat me like his new best friend and tell me his personal story, other than the fact that we'd both been deserted by our papas as kids, and we both came from good Catholic mamas. Once we got past those basics, he was a movie star born in New Jersey, and I was an ex-criminal born in New Orleans. Not much else in common.
But I knew this much: He'd given me a future. More than that, he'd given me a family-and by association, my bro, Armand, too. Armand would be out of Angola by fall, paroled a year early thanks to Stone's attorneys. A family. One worth honoring, serving, and protecting.
What's Shrek's Cajun name, Boonie?
"Le Snout du Oink, mes petites chères."
They laughed every time.
But if you asked Stone, the pig's name changed depending on who the Stone Man's box-office competition was that season. Lately the pig had been Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Vin Diesel, and the Rock, but most of all, more than anyone else, forever-and-ever-amen, the pig was Mel Gibson.
"Mel Gibson took a dump on the Turkish rug again today," Stone liked to say. Or, "The maid caught Mel Gibson eating out of the kitchen garbage again this morning."
Stone envied Gibson the way cheese envies cream. It was a mark of distinction to be Stone's pig. It meant you were a threat. Mel was the ultimate pig threat; the others were only satellites in Mel's pig-threat orbit. Arnold Schwarzenegger called once and asked when the hell he was going to be the pig again.
Stone told him to get in line.
"I FEEL LIKE A fool, Noleene. This ambush of Grace Vance had better work."
Beside me, squatting in the Dahlonega woods on the heels of Burmese snakeskin cowboy boots, Stone was muttering. He'd been muttering for an hour. Let's just describe the Stone Man this way: Picture John Wayne playing Vito Corleone on a hike wearing an Armani suit.
When ten of your films have made 300 million dollars-that's each, not total-you tend to start thinking you deserve anything you want, including the right to film the life story of a dead GBI agent you admire, even if the agent's widow keeps threatening to kill you. So the Stone Man was not happy to be hiding in the bushes like a wuss, waiting for an introduction.
"The hell with this. I'm just going up there and talk to her. She wants to like me. She wants to be happy that I'm here to make a movie about her husband. I know she does. What's not to like?"
I shook my head. "Boss, you agreed to let me handle the introductions. You promised Kanda, too. For her and the kids. Besides, if you go up there and Grace Vance shoots you, it'll make me look bad. I might have to give up my parking spot at the bodyguard union hall."
Stone glared at me the way gorillas do when they're about to rip a banana off a tree, but he knew I was right. I'd done a good job taking care of his and his family's safety at home, on movie sets in jungles and on mountaintops, and even at the Oscars (he was afraid of Joan Rivers, so I had to body-block her while he walked up the red carpet). Finally, he sighed and nodded. "All right, but this better work. I'm getting an itch in my hair plugs. You get up there and sweet-talk Grace Vance. Get the gun away from her, then I'll pop out of the woods and make nice. Go."
I got up and began climbing through the laurel. Inside orthopedic Hush Puppies, my left foot ached like a hangover. A beady-eyed parish cop had shot me in the foot when I was twelve. The bullet broke the joint of my big toe and it never healed right. Armand had cried over it. Ah, the glamour of the criminal life. Twenty-three years later, my foot throbbed its Hail Marys.
When I reached the edge of the road, I stopped in awe. Grace Vance. My first unhindered look at her.
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As the widow of a real hero, Grace Vance just wants to live her life and Harper Vance¿s death in privacy, but Hollywood Hero, Stone Senterra wants to make a movie about Harp and while he wants Grace¿s approval, legally he doesn¿t need it. Stone comes crashing into town with his entourage which includes Cajun ex-con Boone Noleene. Boone is against this project from the word go and does his best to stand firm in the middle. But how can he when Grace is the woman he has been looking for all his life? How can he be loyal to Stone and still do right by Grace? Charming Grace is a wonderful emotional roller coaster ride. Full of Southern flavor, Charming Grace will have you laughing and crying and hungry for more after the last page is turned. Boone is a man full of mysteries and a Cajun charm that will melt you. Grace is strong and a true Steel Magnolia. Together they are magic. Ms. Smith brings this small Georgia community to life with wonderful characters and snappy dialogue with twists and turns that will delight and surprise. The story shifts from Boone¿s to Grace¿s first person viewpoints and adds another layer of charm to this fluid read. This is a one-sitting venture that you will feel honored to place on your keeper shelf.
I just love Deborah Smith. Her books are fantastic and well worth the time. This book did not disappoint.
Smith is one darn fine writer, she never fails to surprise and enchant me with her plots and endearing characters, but I must say this book contains one of the best "didn't see THATt coming!" twists ever. I'd consider myself savvy 'n suspicious when it comes to nuances in some books but she sure whupped me upside the head with this one. Deborah Smith rocks!!
Has the unique and quirky but likeable characters one expects in aDeborah Smith read. The "cheesy" mechanism in the ending cited by another reviewer is out os ancient classical theater. Had me smiling to see the expeditious way the tense climax resolves.
This Deborah Smith story is lighter in tone and emotion than Sweet Hush and A Place to Call Home, two of my favorites. It is a quick read with the great characters expected in her books, along with some humor, some surprises and a few cheesy tricks near the end. An enjoyable read.


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Do you have to sit and observe your breath for 20 minutes a day to practise mindfulness?
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Sitting mindfully is helpful and builds that "mindfulness muscle" but it isn't essential.
Many people don't live in circumstances in which they can sit mindfully for 20 minutes a day: long commutes, demanding kids or a lack of privacy all put paid to monk-type meditating. Others would give up on mindfulness if they had to do it because, well, they can usually find something more interesting to do than sitting for twenty minutes with their breathing – actually the same is true of people who meditate daily and they do it anyway: if you are not made of such stern stuff don't drop mindfulness but use some of the ideas below.
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- As often as you remember to do so, take a few calm breaths in awareness. This takes you out of the mind-wandering that so many of us get lost in.
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- Walk or stroll mindfully, in other words, bring your awareness to the fact that you are walking, to the sensation of walking, to what you see and hear. You don't need a park or a forest for this (most of us don't have one handy). You can be mindful when walking in your place of work, in your home, or down the street.
- Choose a routine action to do in full awareness: drinking tea or coffee, walking along the street, showering, brushing your teeth, starting the car, cycling – it's an endless list.
- Do short practices on an app such as Insight Timer. It's one of the world's most popular mindfulness apps. I have some short practices on it myself at this link.
- Download and use some of my (usually) short mindfulness practices on the audio section of this website or on Soundcloud (Soundcloud tracks start playing automatically).
Buddhist tradition
Mindfulness as we practise it today was developed in the Buddhist tradition. But historians say most Buddhists have not traditionally practised sitting and meditating, that this was more a practice for senior monks in monasteries – the juniors were busy doing the hard work!
So if sitting in meditation isn't for you, practise mindfulness anyway and you'll still get the benefits of this great life skill.


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A Letter to Students August 24, 2010Posted by Dwight Furrow in Dwight Furrow's Posts, Education, politics.
Tags: California Education
Berkeley Professor Michael O'Hare wrote a letter to his students that all California college and university students should read.
After extolling the virtues of his students, he gives them the bad news:
The bad news is that you have been the victims of a terrible swindle, denied an inheritance you deserve by contract and by your merits. And you aren't the only ones; victims of this ripoff include the students who were on your left and on your right in high school but didn't get into Cal, a whole generation stiffed by mine. This letter is an apology, and more usefully, perhaps a signal to start demanding what's been taken from you so you can pass it on with interest.
Swindle–what happened? Well, before you were born, Californians now dead or in nursing homes made a remarkable deal with the future. (Not from California? Keep reading, lots of this applies to you, with variations.) They agreed to invest money they could have spent on bigger houses, vacations, clothes, and cars into the world's greatest educational system, and into building and operating water systems, roads, parks, and other public facilities, an infrastructure that was the envy of the world. They didn't get everything right: too much highway and not enough public transportation. But they did a pretty good job.
Young people who enjoyed these 'loans' grew up smarter, healthier, and richer than they otherwise would have, and understood that they were supposed to "pay it forward" to future generations, for example by keeping the educational system staffed with lots of dedicated, well-trained teachers, in good buildings and in small classes, with college counselors and up-to-date books. California schools had physical education, art for everyone, music and theater, buildings that looked as though people cared about them, modern languages and ancient languages, advanced science courses with labs where the equipment worked, and more. They were the envy of the world, and they paid off better than Microsoft stock. Same with our parks, coastal zone protection, and social services.
I will just post the entire letter because it is crucial that students have this information.
This deal held until about thirty years ago, when for a variety of reasons, California voters realized that while they had done very well from the existing contract, they could do even better by walking away from their obligations and spending what they had inherited on themselves. "My kids are finished with school; why should I pay taxes for someone else's? Posterity never did anything for me!" An army of fake 'leaders' sprang up to pull the moral and fiscal wool over their eyes, and again and again, your parents and their parents lashed out at government (as though there were something else that could replace it) with tax limits, term limits, safe districts, throw-away-the-key imprisonment no matter the cost, smoke-and-mirrors budgeting, and a rule never to use the words taxes and services in the same paragraph.
Now, your infrastructure is falling to pieces under your feet, and as citizens you are responsible for crudities like closing parks, and inhumanities like closing battered women's shelters. It's outrageous, inexcusable, that you can't get into the courses you need, but much worse that Oakland police have stopped taking 911 calls for burglaries and runaway children. If you read what your elected officials say about the state today, you'll see things like "California can't afford" this or that basic government function, and that "we need to make hard choices" to shut down one or another public service, or starve it even more (like your university). Can't afford? The budget deficit that's paralyzing Sacramento is about $500 per person; add another $500 to get back to a public sector we don't have to be ashamed of, and our average income is almost forty times that. Of course we can afford a government that actually works: the fact is that your parents have simply chosen not to have it.
I'm writing this to you because you are the victims of this enormous cheat (though your children will be even worse off if you don't take charge of this ship and steer it). Your education was trashed as California fell to the bottom of US states in school spending, and the art classes, AP courses, physical education, working toilets, and teaching generally went by the board. Every year I come upon more and more of you who have obviously never had the chance to learn to write plain, clear, English. Every year, fewer and fewer of you read newspapers, speak a foreign language, understand the basics of how government and business actually work, or have the energy to push back intellectually against me or against each other. Or know enough about history, literature, and science to do it effectively! You spent your school years with teachers paid less and less, trained worse and worse, loaded up with more and more mindless administrative duties, and given less and less real support from administrators and staff.
Many of your parents took a hike as well, somehow getting the idea that the schools had taken over their duties to keep you learning, or so beat-up working two jobs each and commuting two hours a day to put food on the table that they couldn't be there for you. A quarter of your classmates didn't finish high school, discouraged and defeated; but they didn't leave the planet, even if you don't run into them in the gated community you will be tempted to hide out in. They have to eat just like you, and they aren't equipped to do their share of the work, so you will have to support them.
You need to have a very tough talk with your parents, who are still voting; you can't save your children by yourselves. Equally important, you need to start talking to each other. It's not fair, and you have every reason (except a good one) to keep what you can for yourselves with another couple of decades of mean-spirited tax-cutting and public sector decline. You're my heroes just for surviving what we put you through and making it into my classroom, but I'm asking for more: you can be better than my generation. Take back your state for your kids and start the contract again. There are lots of places you can start, for example, building a transportation system that won't enslave you for two decades as their chauffeur, instead of raising fares and cutting routes in a deadly helix of mediocrity. Lots. Get to work. See you in class!
Economist Robert Reich makes a further point in an email that O'Hare includes as a postscript:
…one big reason why middle-class Californians began thinking more about themselves than posterity starting in the late 1970s: Their real incomes started to flatten. In the thirty years before that – when their parents invested in California's education system and infrastructure – the median wage tracked productivity gains. The typical family grew so much better off it could afford to be generous. But then the median wage flattened even as productivity gains continued. Public-spiritedness is harder to inspire among people who feel they're losing ground.
I've posted on this issue earlier this summer. We have in fact been losing ground for decades. Our current troubles just make this trend toward stagnant middle class incomes very visible, a reality that students especially are experiencing.
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2. Incorporation of the Talapitiya Ahadiyya Association.
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5. Management of the affairs of the Corporation.
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From and after the date of commencement of this Act, such and so many persons as now are members of the "Talapitiya Ahadiyya Association" (hereinafter referred to as the "Association") or shall hereafter be admitted members of the Corporation hereby constituted shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession under the name and style of the "Talapitiya Ahadiyya Association" (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation") and by that name may sue, and be sued, in all courts, with full power and authority to have and use a common seal and alter the same at its pleasure.
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On the Dashboard, in the Setup Checklist, click Add staff or click on Workforce > Staff in the header:
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Tanda has three ways for adding your Staff, depending on your Payroll & Accounting system and business workflow.
To access the options, click on the green + Add Staff button in the top right corner:
1. Import from your Payroll & Accounting System
Some Payroll & Accounting Systems allow Tanda to automatically import all your staff data, while others enable a report to be imported with the information.
Click on the Import from button to select your system and follow the prompts. Your staff data will then display once they have been imported.
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For new employees that haven't been entered in your Payroll & Accounting system yet, you can use Employee Onboarding to add them. This sends a link to an App which the employee uses to fill in their information. Their profile is then added to Tanda automatically and depending on the Payroll & Accounting system you use, will automatically create a profile, otherwise you can use the data in Tanda to add all the employees information.
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If you didn't create this in the first step, have a look at the Add Locations & Teams article and if you're not using any Locations/Teams, just skip to the next step on Rosters.
Under Workforce > Teams > click on a Team to edit it. Under Staff/Managers click to select relevant staff, ensuring you click Update Team Details at the bottom to save:
Individual Profile
Under Workforce > Staff > click on an individual employee's name to go to their profile. On the Personal tab, on the right you can allocate the Team under Member of Teams. For Managers, you'll need to also tick Team Manager under Permissions and allocate the Team. Ensure you click Update Employee Details button at the bottom to save. Repeat this process for all staff.
Bulk Categorise
This is located under Workforce > Staff > on the right side, select Tools > Bulk categorise staff:
Select the staff you want to put in the first Location or Team, scroll down and allocate them to those areas and then click the blue Add Teams or Tags to save. You can keep categorising as many times as you need to, to allocate all your staff to their Locations/Teams.
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Leveraging a Viral Post with Hope Brookins
Episode 109: Show Notes
Today on the podcast, we welcome personal branding and publicity strategist, Hope Brookins. After having her family's personal story of building a house using YouTube tutorials completely go viral, Hope was able to leverage that opportunity into her own business success. Using this experience, Hope helps small business owners do the same thing. She helps them build their own brand story, take their media and use these opportunities so that they are perfectly positioned, polished, and prepared to present themselves to the world.
On today's episode Hope gives actionable steps to help you craft your own brand story and integrate it into your website and business. She also identifies the key features of a viral post and what you can do to every piece of content to give it the opportunity to go viral, organically. Many people think "going viral" happens overnight but this is not always the case. It took Hope and her family two years of preparation for their story to go viral and Hope is all about having a carefully planned strategy to get you there. If you are looking for some great tips and actionable steps on how you can tweak your brand story to be more viral-worthy, then this episode is definitely for you. We can't wait for you to hear her story!
How Hope's "Family Branding" Went Viral
About a decade ago, Hope's family left a terrible domestic violence situation and built their own house up using YouTube videos. During that time Hope and her family went through a lot, but very privately. They were not sharing their story publicly but over time, people started telling them to share their story and encouraged Hope's mom to write a book. Her mom did. And a few years ago the book sold at a big New York publishers auction. In the two years leading up to the book release in January 2017, Hope and her mom worked on a branding and publicity campaign to help launch the book and market their family. Within two weeks and before the book even came out, Hope and her family featured in over 100 media outlets in 65 countries. The press continued this for months. From Cosmopolitan, to BuzzFeed, to CNN – Hope even had the Today Show coming to her house. Hope was very intentional about her "family branding" and establishing their overall archetype. She wanted to share her family's story without presenting them as victims. She wanted to tell a story of taking action, empowerment, and about doing something big. A big lesson from Hope's story is that everything was strategic. They didn't just go viral overnight. It took them two years for them to build that foundation to go viral and be prepared for it...
Coping With Your Personal Family Story Going Viral
In Hope's experience, having a brand gave her clarity. This clarity enabled her and her family to better cope with the attention, comments, and even scrutiny. Having a brand enabled them to filter the way in which they wanted to be seen strategically, present themselves, and how to answer questions. A brand eliminated the stress, confusion, and lack of confidence that comes when you don't have clarity. This was a huge advantage for their family launch, but preparing Hope's family for this didn't come easy. Fortunately, Hope had had a seven-year background in politics and in political campaigns. By the time she was 19, she had already worked for several congressmen, politicians, and even the former President of the United States. By the time of her mom's book was launched, Hope had significant experience in knowing how to control the media and manage media appearances. She leveraged this experience to help prepare her siblings. Before Hope's family story went viral, they had not had interaction with a single media coach. Most families have family game nights, but Hope's family had family interview nights where they would pull out the camera and ask each other questions and, a lot of the time it would end in tears. But Hope believes that her family might not have managed to maintain the level of press attention that they did, had they not been prepared with answers.
The Opportunities The Viral Family Story Opened Up For Hope's Business
Press takes a lot of time and initially the attention affected Hope's business negatively. She had to take three months off from her own business to focus on communication with press. People often don't realize the time and money involved in conducting press interviews, but since then, Hope has been able to radically increase her own business prices. Press coverage gives a significant amount of credibility and this was the best thing Hope could have ever had for her own business. It's amazing what one viral article, or post, or video can do to bring attention to your brand, or to bring new clients or sponsors on board. It doesn't have to be thousands of media articles to have an impact on your business, it can just be one, as long as it's authentic and has reach. After the three months, the hype about Hope's viral family story began to slow down. Hope didn't know where to go and it took a few months for her to refocus. With her practical experience, Hope has better advice and has lived out the actionable steps that she prescribes for her clients when building their brand story.
The Seven Different Types Of Stories
99% of stories fit into these seven categories: Rags to riches, Quest, Overcoming the Monster, Re-Birth, Journey and Return, Tragedy, Comedy.... and basically most people have enough elements in their story to fit into any one of those frameworks. What Hope tells people to do is think about the journey or transformation that you want your target audience to go on and tell the story that represents that. You have a million stories in your life and you can use a million stories in your brand. But you need to have an origin story. The origin story is the most important one. How you started doing this and how it relates to your clients.
The Six Elements To Being Viral-Worthy
The word "viral-worthy" imply that this is an organic process because of the strategy that you are going to develop. So the first element is: Evoking emotion – Making an emotional connection with people. The second is, Heartwarming – You want an emotion that is going to be warm and happy. Things that are positive usually get shared more. The third is, Timing – You have to consider when you will be sharing your story. This could be a luck thing or a strategic thing. For Hope's story, it came out at a time when there was a huge amount of political negativity and their story was a hugely positive one, which gained attention because perhaps it was what people needed under the socio-economic climate. Four, Leveraging a trend – This is a great thing to do. In Hope's case, her family's story leveraged the trend of using the internet to educate and empower yourself: the DIY trend.
The last two are probably the most important, and they are: Good visuals – You have to have good pictures, good videos, charts. You are not going to go viral without something graphic. Lastly, to be viral-worthy, you have to have a shock value. This doesn't have to be shock value in a crazy dramatic way but it does have to be something that makes your story different. In Hope's case, a lot of people think that the shock value for them was that they built a house. It's not. The fact that they built a house using YouTube, that's shock value. You can use these elements when you are constructing your origin story, or any type of story, whether that's in the form of a blog post or a video. If you are accomplishing some of these goals your content will be more shareable. Hope uses this list to help her clients build more viral-worthy brands and when you are using these viral-worthy elements and incorporating them into your story, you are making it more shareable.
How Can You Convert Your Story Into Sales
When you are trying to leverage publicity that you have already received, it's about sharing it. Put it on your website, share those quotes, share those stories. You want to make sure you are fully exploiting it (for lack of a better word.) You need to advertise your publicity, your articles on your own website and social media platforms, use the big names and logos and pump them! Think about how you are being introduced, your bio. Some people will have had one interview with Forbes and they will title themselves as say, "A Forbes featured Coach." Instead of using all the press they have received, they will leverage just one. This is also another smart strategy and at the end of the day it is all about how you want to position yourself. If you don't tell people how great you are, they will never know. It is your responsibility to share this information with your audience. When you're a business owner, you can't have shame. You're doing your clients a favor by letting them know how amazing you are. So tell them!
Keeping A Record Of Your Own Press Coverage
Hope soon realized that with the level of press they were receiving, Google Alerts was just not enough to help stay on top of it. So they invested in a pricy piece of media tracking software, which enabled them to leverage those numbers and stats and archive everything. But if you can't afford fancy software or don't think it necessary for you at this point – if you have had a feature or features you can keep track of them by keeping a spreadsheet and using an app on your laptop called Paparazzi. Hope takes a screenshot of every single feature and archives them, because things do not all always exist on the internet forever! If you don't have evidence, you might kick yourself if you can't prove that you were there.
Hope also downloads all the videos she has been featured in because things also aren't on YouTube or news sites forever. It is vital that you download everything and save it on a database. If you are featured on a magazine cover, usually you can get a PDF of the cover from the publication. So just ask for it, and most people won't say no. If you're wondering what might be important to track, the essentials would be: the name of the publication, the date, the URL and anything you can put numbers to (for example, the number of views a video of yours might have reached.) People who sponsor love numbers! If you're wondering where to start, try Google yourself and start making a list of all the articles that you have been featured in. It's not as time consuming as you might think and will then be easier to maintain moving forward. It is also an easy task for an intern. #justsaying.
Hope's Three Steps For Viral-Worthy Preparation
Plan, position and package. Number one, Plan, is figuring out what you want to be known for. This is where you start to think of yourself as a public figure. A question that Hope always asks people to help them come to a truthful answer, is: If you going on the Today Show and you could talk about anything you wanted, what is it that you'd actually want to be talking about? It might sound simple, but it's the hardest thing. Essentially, it is answering "What do you want to be known for?" Number two, Position. "You can't expect the public to know something unless you tell them." You have to tell people what it is you do, what you want to be known for. Your position is your title. And you can give yourself your own title. Whether it's "The Branding Guy" or "The King of Vegas." The last one is Package, and it's about sharing your story unapologetically. It's about becoming your archetype and becoming a brand that is bigger than just you. Have that character that you are becoming and resonates with who you actually are and not who you are trying to be. That's packaging yourself.
- Learn more about the two-year foundation that Hope's family built in order for them to go viral. [0:04:07.1]
- Coping and the strategies for preparing your personal family story to go viral. [0:07:55.1]
- The opportunities that opened up from Hope's family story going viral, and how she capitalized on them. [0:14:05.1]
- The seven different types of stories and the importance of refining your origin story. [0:21:35.1]
- Hear Hope's vital six elements to being viral-worthy. [0:26:54.1]
- How can you convert your story into sales by punting your own amazingness? [0:33:10.1]
- Keeping track of your own press coverage by organizing spreadsheets. [0:33:10.1]
- Hope's Three Steps For Viral-Worthy Preparation. [0:45:20.1]
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Publication Date1-1-2007
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AbstractThe aim of this article is to promote discussion and professional development around the topic of learning difficulties in mathematics, particularly as these pertain to teaching and learning in the middle school years. The article has three sections. In the first section, a review of literature about learning difficulties (LD) in mathematics is presented. Definitional issues are discussed, key underlying causes of LD in mathematics are highlighted and common 'learner characteristics' of middle-years students with LD in mathematics are identified. The second part of the article is an overview of a responsive intervention currently being developed to support middle-years students with LD in mathematics. This section describes the implementation of the QuickSmart mathematics intervention with 42 participating students and 12 comparison students enrolled in five schools from a rural area of New South Wales. The results of pre-intervention and post-intervention assessments, using both standardised and achievement-based measures are reported. The findings indicate that the QuickSmart intervention approach improved students' mathematical knowledge, skills and understandings. In the third section of the article research-validated, curriculum-relevant strategies from the QuickSmart mathematics program are described.
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Graham, L, Bellert, A & Pegg, J 2007, 'Supporting students in the middle school years with learning difficulties in mathematics: research into classroom practice', Australasian Journal of Special Education, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 171-82.
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LOS ANGELES, CA, September 22, 2016 — The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that, in celebration of the 30th edition of AFI FEST presented by Audi, a trio of diverse female trailblazers will be featured in both the festival's 2016 key art and programming lineup. AFI FEST will spotlight Dorothy Dandridge, the first African American nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award®; Ida Lupino, a pioneering director, writer, producer and actress who became the first woman to direct a film noir; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American actress to rise to international prominence.
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Modder River Cocktail
1/4 French Vermouth. (1/2 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/4 Caperitif. (1/2 oz St. Raphael Gold)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz North Shore Distiller's No. 11)
(dash Angostura Orange Bitters)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze orange peel over glass and discard.)
An enjoyable, if a bit odd combination.
Still no real idea what sort of "Aperitif" Caperitif was, so continuing to experiment with various aperitif wines.
St. Raphael Gold is growing on me. It does really remind me of Sherry, so it is a good contrast here to the Dry Vermouth.
The Modder River is a river in South Africa that forms part of the border between the Northern Cape and the Free State provinces.
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British tactics, little changed from the Crimea, used at Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop were incapable of winning battles against entrenched troops armed with modern magazine rifles. Every British commander made the same mistake; Buller; Methuen, Roberts and Kitchener. When General Kelly-Kenny attempted to winkle Cronje's commandoes out of their riverside entrenchments at Paardeburg using his artillery, Kitchener intervened and insisted on a battle of infantry assaults; with the same disastrous consequences as Colenso, Modder River, Magersfontein and Spion Kop.
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This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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