Food & Lifestyle Blog: BettyHakes.com

Share He is Risen! Happy Easter to you all. As I wake up this beautiful morning in the Cincinnati area my first reaction was “I need hide the eggs so the kids can find them”. But… there are no colored eggs to hide anymore. My kids are 10 and almost 15 yrs old and the [...]

Share Health Insurance is a funny little thing… you don’t really think about it until you really need it. I am lucky enough to have health insurance today, but I really didn’t think about paying for health insurance when I was a young adult out of college.  I was invincible… Well, I was invincible until [...]

Share My friends & family are already tired of hearing me complain about the snow and cold weather in Cincinnati.  I know the North East has it worse.. but it doesn’t make me feel any better. As I sit here, with a glass of wine at hand (A Spanish Crianza “Castillo de Fuendejalon” from ’06 [...]

Share Recent news is highlighting stories on a new report from Kaiser Family Foundation which sates kids ages 8 to 18 spend more than 7.5 hours a day using electronic media. This is the third wave of the study (1999, 2004 & 2009) which indicates a growth of media usage within the youth by about [...]

Share Are we losing the art of writing a letter to someone? I know we email, twitter, and update our status today to communicate with friends and loved ones. We talk, text and send pictures that help us communicate. But about a good old fashion letter? Why am I — ms. geek the social media/microblogger [...]

Share As most of you may know I’ve been maintaining two blogs, one for gourmetbetty and one for bettyhakes.  Time has come to merge the two… after all, I am both! So, we’ve merged all the articles into this bettyhakes.com blog. Let me know what you think of the new look and feel. Peace, Betty

Share “Retirement Revolution” focuses on the stories of seniors who are planning for their futures in the wake of the financial collapse of 2008. The broadcast also highlights living with Alzheimer’s disease, featuring interviews with Alzheimer’s Association staff members Bill Thies, Beth Kallmyer and two former Early Stage Advisors, Mimi Steffen and Gary Shelton. Find [...]

Share I am treasuring the time my mom and I are spending together during her visit with us in Cincinnati.  Not only is she a HUGE help to me around the house and with the kids, I cherish the times we have to talk and reminisce over the past.  Yesterday we talked about how much [...]

What is the deal with so many people in Miami being so mean?

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